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Record ID:
220338
Accession number:
ARC 1176.202
Photographer:
Edward S. Curtis
Title:
Sealers' Camp--Yakutat Bay
Summary:
A group of Yakutat Tlingit shelters on rocky ground; stretched hides are propped along the outside walls.
Created:
ca. 1899
Printed/Manufactured:
United States, ca. 1905-1910
Description:
1 lantern slide : photograph on glass, hand colored ; 3 1/4 x 4 inches (lantern slide format)
Inscriptions/Markings:
Oval white sticker with red border with number 13 adhered to slide at lower left.
Notes:
Title from album entitled: A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May-August, 1899. Volume 1, New York to Cook Inlet, leaf 84; University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection (PH Coll 333); dated June 1899, caption title: Sealers' Camp--Yakutat Bay; repository title: Tlingit Indian sealers' camp, Yakutat Bay, Alaska; summary: Shows square shelters covered with strips of spruce bark on gravelly beach, seal skins on drying frames.
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).
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