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Container Reference (shelfmark) L.R.298.b.2, 10

1. L.R.298.b.2, 10(329)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(329)
Title:
Painting a hat — Nakoaktok. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait of a seated woman decorating a woven hat: 'The painter is clad in a short, seamless, cedar-bark cape, which is worn for protection from rain. That she is a woman of wealth and rank is shown by the abalone-shell nose-ornament and the gold bracelets, no less than by her posses...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

2. L.R.298.b.2, 10(330)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(330)
Title:
Carved posts at Alert Bay. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of two large totem poles in front of a wood frame house: 'These two heraldic columns at the Nimkish village Yilis, on Cormorant island represent the owner's paternal crest, an eagle, and his maternal crest, a grizzly-bear crushing the head of a rival chief. On the subject of crests and tote...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

3. L.R.298.b.2, 10(331)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(331)
Title:
Qa'hila — Koprino. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait: 'This young chief of an almost extinct tribe resident on Quatsino sound, near the northwestern end of Vancouver island, is wearing one of the nose-ornaments formerly common among Kwakiutl nobility. The dentalium shells of which they consisted were obtained ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

4. L.R.298.b.2, 10(332)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(332)
Title:
Mowakiu — Tsawatenok. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of an elderly man: 'The Tsawatenok are an inland river tribe, depending on the sea for their sustenance much less than do most Kwakiutl tribes, and to an equal degree devoting more time to hunting and trapping in the mountains. Their territory lies along Kin...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

5. L.R.298.b.2, 10(333)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(333)
Title:
Hamasaka in Tlu'wulahu costume with speaker's staff — Qagyuhl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length standing portrait: 'The principal chief of the Qagyuhl is depicted in a 'button blanket' (which is simply a woolen blanket ornamented with hundreds of large mother-of-pearl buttons), cedar-bark neck-ring, and cedar-bark head-band. His right hand grasps a shaman's rattle, and...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

6. L.R.298.b.2, 10(334)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(334)
Title:
A Nakoaktok chief's daughter. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
When the head chief of the Nakoaktok holds a potlatch (a ceremonial distribution of property to all the people), his eldest daughter is thus enthroned, symbolically supported on the heads of her slaves.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

7. L.R.298.b.2, 10(335)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(335)
Title:
Siwit — Awaitlala. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of a white-bearded man.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

8. L.R.298.b.2, 10(336)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(336)
Title:
Kotsuis and Hohhuq — Nakoaktok. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
These two masked performers in the winter dance represent huge, mythical birds. Kotsuis (the Nakoaktok equivalent of the Qagyuhl Kaloqutsuis) and Hohhuq are servitors in the house of the man-eating monster Pahpaqalanohsiwi. See page 160. The mandibles of these tremendous wooden masks are control...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

9. L.R.298.b.2, 10(337)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(337)
Title:
Coming for the bride. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of wedding party and masked dancer in a canoe: 'In the bow qunhulahl, a masked man personating the thunderbird, dances with characteristic gestures as the canoe approaches the bride's village. '
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

10. L.R.298.b.2, 10(338)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(338)
Title:
Chief's party — Qagyuhl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-on view of canoe approaching the shore.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

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