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Record ID:
220329
Accession number:
ARC 1176.193
Photographer:
Edward S. Curtis
Title:
George Hunt as a Hamat'sa
Summary:
George Hunt sitting on the ground examining a human skull (Kwakwaka'wakw/Kwakiutl).
Created:
ca. 1910
Printed/Manufactured:
United States ; ca. 1905-1910
Description:
1 lantern slide : photograph on glass, sepia toned ; 3 1/4 x 4 inches (lantern slide format)
Notes:
Title from Aaron Glass, "A Cannibal in the Archive: Performance, Materiality, and (In)Visibility in Unpublished Edward Curtis Photographs of the Kwakwaka'wakw Hamat'sa."
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).
Curtis neg no x 3373-11.
Bibliography:
Aaron Glass, "A Cannibal in the Archive: Performance, Materiality, and (In)Visibility in Unpublished Edward Curtis Photographs of the Kwakwaka'wakw Hamat'sa," Visual Anthropology 25, No. 2 (Fall 2009): 129-149.<br>NAA MS 2010-28 National Anthropological Archives, Series 9.1, Edward Curtis negative log books, volume 1, page 138 ("Van Couver Island"), negative number x 3373: The mummy feast.
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