Object Details
Creator
Swan, James Gilchrist
Collection Creator
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
Citation
Photo Lot 24 SPC Nwc Kwakiutl NM No ACC # Cat 127598 00054200, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Scope and Contents
Post in Back- Ground with Two Men in Cage on Top
sova.naa.photolot.24_ref4193
Local Numbers
NAA INV.00054200
OPPS NEG.38582D
Local Note
Note, Reverse: Potlatch, the Chief Gets Up in This Cage And Calls Out Names of Recipients of Presents;These Trees Were Filled with Dead Bodies in 1883, E B Webster
Black and white photoprint on cardboard mount
Place
Canada -- British Columbia -- Alert Bay Village
Topic
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Creator
Swan, James Gilchrist
Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
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Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects
Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects / Series 1: America north of Mexico / Northwest Coast / Kwakiutl
Extent
1 Photographic print (009 in x 007 in mounted on 009 in x 007 in)
Date
undated
Container
Box III:7, Folder 1-12
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Genre/Form
Photographs
NAA.PhotoLot.24_ref4193
Large EAD
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NAA
Record ID
ebl-1628133031454-1628133033940-0