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Dookstak and wife. OR, foster mother of youth in H2887 and her son. See H2890
Dookstak and wife. OR, foster mother of youth in H2887 and her son. See H2890
Object Number 07-8-00/2.17
Display Title Dookstak and wife. OR, foster mother of youth in H2887 and her son. See H2890
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: Eskimo, Alaska. (Eskimauan) Flaxman Is. Mother and Son - (Pt. Hope?) Foster(?) or Dookstak and wife V. Stefansson - 1906-7.
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Proper Name
  • People and Family
Subject
  • Wife
  • husband
Department Photographic
Date 1907
Artist Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Culture
  • Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough / Flaxman Island
Materials Gelatin silver print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 8.26 x 10.8 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)

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