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Record ID:
220336
Accession number:
ARC 1176.200
Photographer:
Edward S. Curtis
Title:
The Beaver--deserted village
Summary:
A totem pole in a Tlingit Sanya (Cape Fox) village.
Created:
ca. 1899
Printed/Manufactured:
United States, ca. 1910
Description:
1 lantern slide : photograph on glass, sepia toned ; 3 1/4 x 4 inches (lantern slide format)
Inscriptions/Markings:
Oval white sticker with red border adhered to slide at lower left.
Notes:
Title from album entitled: A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May-August, 1899. Volume II, Cook Inlet to Bering Strait and the Return Voyage, leaf 208; University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection (PH Coll 333); dated July 1899, caption title: The Beaver--deserted village; repository title: Totem pole of beaver, deserted Tlingit Indian village, Cape Fox, Alaska; summary: Totem pole with beaver on top, halibut/human figure on bottom.
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).
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