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Kwakiutl Winter Initiation, Noonlemala or Fool Dancers Racing in Secret Meeting Grove of Trees

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Kwakiutl Winter Initiation, Noonlemala or Fool Dancers Racing in Secret Meeting Grove of Trees
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Object Details

Creator

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Hastings, Oregon Columbus

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 175078 00056500, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Scope and Contents

Three Boy Initiates, One Holding Knife; Two Men Nearby, One Non-Native, All in Costume, Four with Face Paint, One with Cedarbark Neck Ring
sova.naa.photolot.24_ref4216

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw37aece0c6-19f9-4711-ac8d-2edd8ff82224

Local Numbers

NAA INV.00056500 OPPS NEG SI.3941 OPPS NEG.BAE 42977-A

Local Note

These photographs are listed in Boas accession file #29057. Additional information supplied by Bill Holm.
Published: The Social Organization and the Secret Societies Of the Kwakiutl Indians;Boas, Franz;USNM Report, 1895, Pl33
Black and white albumen print on cardboard mount

Place

Canada -- British Columbia -- Fort Rupert Village

Topic

Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)

Creator

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Hastings, Oregon Columbus

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 Albumen print (004 in x 006 in mounted on 004 in x 006 in)

Date

Nov-Dec 1894

Container

Box III:7, Folder 1-12

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Type

Archival materials
Albumen prints
Photographs

Existence and Location of Copies

Glass plate negative
Digital surrogate produced from glass plate negative

Genre/Form

Photographs
NAA.PhotoLot.24_ref4216
Large EAD
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NAA

Record ID

ebl-1628133031454-1628133033944-4

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