Name/Title
Eskimo Totems, Blanket, Rattle, etc., Harry George Collection Photo, 1910Entry/Object ID
143/344Description
Eskimo Totems, Blanket, Rattle, etc., Harry George Collection Photo, 1910. sepia. Photo of five items, including two house totems and a Chilcat blanket, displayed on tabletop, leaving against wall.
Handwritten on back:
"Correspondence, Vol. 1, pg. 73C, 89D. W. H. Case
Photo 23
1. House totem of the Bear--(Thlingit). Headdress belongs with it--pg 77C (5509)
2. Old medicine man's mask.
3. Medicine man's rattle, (5780)
4. Oil boat. used to drink oil out of at their old feast. From Douglas, Alaska (5606)
5. Piece of Chilcat blanket, cut in separate pieces by the head men of different clans, as a memento that they had settle some tribal trouble.
*1. Individual totem used in the house."Collection
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Native American, Native American Art, Alaska Tribes, Medicine Man, Totem, Thlingit, George CollectionDimensions
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Printsize: 6½" x 4¼"