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Kwakiutl Village Showing Wood Plank Houses, Canoes, and Group of Natives and Non-Natives in Foreground; Potlatch Lookout

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Kwakiutl Village Showing Wood Plank Houses, Canoes, and Group of Natives and Non-Natives in Foreground; Potlatch Lookout
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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

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw30cea2ad4-ed6a-4b36-bad4-d1f61ff737f9

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
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw30cea2ad4-ed6a-4b36-bad4-d1f61ff737f9
NAA.PhotoLot.24
NAA

Record ID

ebl-1628133031454-1628133033940-0

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