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Object Number 2004.29.3432
Display Title Kwakwaka’wakw dance; Three figures in foreground
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Kwakiutl Indians (Wakashan) / Kwakiutl dance. World Columbian Expo. 1893. / Same as alt # H6338 (93-1-10/100266.1.36). Glass neg. No. 755 (a copy neg) / N26808a; N29640; N28543. See inventory 10-60. / (verso) Upper photo was reproduced in "Masks of the N.W. Coast" by Robt Ritzen Thaler & Lee Parsons Ed.Marion Johnson Mochon, text (Public's in Primitive Art, #2- Milwakee Pub. Mus.)"
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Dance
Subject
  • Dance
Department Photographic
Date 1850-1899
Culture
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Illinois / Cook County / Chicago
Additional Geographic Terms World Columbia Exposition
Dimensions Overall: 17.15 x 20.32 cm (6 3/4 x 8 in.)

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