Franz Boas posing for figure in USNM exhibit entitled "Hamats'a coming out of secret room"

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Object Details

Scope and Contents

Notations on back of photograph of exhibit (USNM Kwakiutl no Number): "U.S.N.M. Rept. (1895) Plate 29 Hamats'a coming out of secret room," and "Kwakiutl Indian ceremony for expelling cannibals." Date: Not recorded; 1895 or before. Original glass negative.

sova.naa.photolot.176_ref9829

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw33369719b-f154-4349-9f14-eb2491ef7002

Local Numbers

OPPS NEG MNH 8298

Culture

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)

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Bureau of American Ethnology negatives

Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Glass Negatives / Photographer not recorded

Extent

1 Glass negative

Date

1895 or before

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Identifier

NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative MNH 8298

Type

Archival materials

Glass negatives

NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref9829

Large EAD

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw33369719b-f154-4349-9f14-eb2491ef7002

NAA.PhotoLot.176

NAA

Record ID

ebl-1628267668517-1628267670176-1

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