Name/Title

Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2018.108.001b

Description

Re-enactment of cross gift to Father Blanchet in 1840. August 1940 at St. Mary's Church in Coupeville. Natives from Skagit Reservation, La Conner. A large gathering is observing a tall wooden cross. The cross appears to be near a building (church?). An Indigenous man (left of cross) is wearing a feather headdress and patterned blanket. He is walking toward the cross. The gathering appears to take place on hill behind Coupeville, facing North. Blowers Bluff and Penn Cove in background.

Made/Created

Date made

Aug 1940

Place

City

Coupeville, Washington

County

Island County

State/Province

Washington

Region

Cascades and Plateau, Whidbey Island

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

5 in

Width

7 in