ABSTRACT
The S G ang Gwaay World Heritage site is located in the extreme south of the Haida Gwaii archipelago, which means ‘islands of the People’ in the Haida language (formerly, the Queen Charlotte Islands). It is home to the Haida First Nation and is located 120 kilometres off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, near the Alaskan border ( Figure 4.2 ). SGang Gwaay, which means ‘wailing island’, shelters an old Haida village, where ten large cedar longhouses and 32 carved totem and mortuary poles of about six metres in height remain from the traditional daily life of the native Haida ( Figure 4.1 ).
