Chief of Chiefs Chester Moore of the Nisga’a
My husband John took these photos of the totem pole carved by Chief Chester Moore and of Chief Chester Moore in his regalia.
John took these photographs while I was interviewing Chief Moore on videotape.
Chester Moore is Chief of Chiefs of the frog clan of the Nisga’a First Nations people. Note the carved frog face making up his headdress.
This is a view of most of the totem pole looking up. Can you see the ravens on the top and the smiling metaphysical frog half way up? I posted close ups of the raven and the metaphysical frog on August 3, 2009.
Photo Copyright 2009 John Chapman
Chief of Chiefs Chester Moore in his regalia. In the background is the Nass River and snow-capped mountains near Kinkolith, which is in northern BC, Canada.
Photo Copyright 2009 John Chapman
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Totem pole carving is not a dead art only relegated to ancient totem poles displayed in museums. Totem poles are living things created by modern-day master carvers such as Chief of Chiefs Chester Moore.
We interviewed Chester on videotape in his home village of Kinkolith, on the mighty and cold Nass River, which empties into the Pacific Ocean south of the Alaska panhandle.
The Nisga’a tribe, of which Chester is a member, is separated into four clans: Wolf, Eagle, Raven, and Killer Whale. Chester is Chief of Chiefs of the Frog Clan which is interrelated with the Raven clan.
Knowing that there is a frog clan makes me feel good since I had memories of being a frog / human mixture during my past life regressions of Atlantis. I wrote about my memories of Atlantis in both my books: When We Were Gods and Arrival of the Gods in Egypt.
Here are my photographs of a couple of the amazing animals carved on Chester’s magnificent totem pole.
Two fierce ravens adorn the top of the totem pole. They look over to the snow-capped mountains on the other side of the Nass River in Northern British Columbia.
Chester pointed out to me that this is a metaphysical frog since it has human faces in its eyes.
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