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Object Number 2004.29.3473
Display Title Bird effigy house posts
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written on board: "Kwakiutl Indians / Tsatsichnukwomi / May 15, 1921. / Dr. C. F. Newcombe."
Keywords
  • Field
  • Ethnographic
  • Effigy
Subject
  • Totem Pole
Department Photographic
Date May 15, 1921
Artist Dr. Charles Frederick Newcombe
Culture
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Dimensions Overall: 7.9375 × 10.4775 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)

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Tsatisichnukwomi