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Object Number 2004.29.3449
Display Title New totem poles; Side view in front of waterfront house.
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Kwakiutl. Wakashan."; typed note on board: "No. 32. / Tlaoitsis. (Winter Village) / 32. New totem pole, 1912. / Both by CFN. Dr. C. F. Newcombe."
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Effigy
Subject
  • Totem Pole
Department Photographic
Date 1912
Artist Dr. Charles Frederick Newcombe
Culture
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / Queen Charlotte Islands?
Dimensions Overall: 8.26 x 12.07 cm (3 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Museum Collection

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