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Object Number 2004.29.3504
Display Title Hamatsa, a Quatsino medicine man
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Quatsino Indian (Wakashan) / Hamatsa - The wild Medicine Man of the Quatsino (Koske-mo) Tribe - Vancouver Island. / In exchange - Museum of University of Penn - Oct. 1912."
Keywords
  • Ritual Figure
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Medicine man
Department Photographic
Date 1850-1912
Culture
  • Quatsino
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / Vancouver Island
Additional Geographic Terms Quatsino sound?
Dimensions Overall: 17.78 x 22.86 cm (7 x 9 in.)

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