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Top of the cleft at Nakalatsivik place for hurling down witches etc.
Top of the cleft at Nakalatsivik place for hurling down witches etc.
Object Number 38-39-10/100503.2.9
Display Title Top of the cleft at Nakalatsivik place for hurling down witches etc.
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: Greenland. Top of the cleft at Nakalatsiuik - Place for hurling down witches etc. in heathen times. See Plan in File also Specimens No. in the Peabody Museum. Morten P. Porsild - Copyright reserved. 1915.
Keywords
  • Geography
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • cleft
Department Photographic
Date 1915
Artist Morten P. Porsild
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Additional Geographic Terms Nakalatsivik
Materials Gelatin silver print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Morten P. Porsild

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