The Nisga’a Lisims Government (NLG) and National Museums Scotland (NMS) agreed last December that the pole would be returned home to the Nass Valley in British Columbia after almost a century in Scotland.
It was acquired in 1929 by Canadian curator and ethnographer Marius Barbeau on behalf of the Royal Museum of Scotland, which later became the National Museum of Scotland (NMS). It went on display the following year.
Its journey home will start next month.
