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Object Number
2004.29.3473
Display Title
Bird effigy house posts
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Kwakiutl Indians / Tsatsichnukwomi / May 15, 1921. / Dr. C. F. Newcombe."
Keywords
- Ethnographic
- Field
- Effigy
Subject
- Totem Pole
Department
Photographic
Date
May 15, 1921
Artist
Dr. Charles Frederick Newcombe
Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Dimensions
Overall: 7.9375 × 10.4775 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004.29.3471 | Bird effigy house post |
North America
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| 2004.29.3479 | House posts and a man standing between them |
North America
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| 2004.29.3469 | Totem poles at entrance to house |
North America
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| 2004.29.3470 | Man walking towards totem poles at entrance to house |
North America
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| 2004.29.3472 | Carved stone effigy head |
North America
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| 2004.29.3474 | View of neighborhood of Tsatsichnukwomi |
North America
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| 2004.29.3446 | Kwakwaka’wakw people leaving house with painting of tsekish sea monster |
Tsatisichnukwomi
| ||
| 2004.29.3444 | Effigy of toothed woman in story related by Boas |
Tsatisichnukwomi
| ||
| 2004.29.3447 | Painted houses on the shore with boats in foreground |
Tsatisichnukwomi
| ||
| 2004.29.3448 | General view of Tlaoitsis (Winter Village) |
Queen Charlotte Islands?
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| 2004.29.3450 | Old house with totem pole, projecting bow of large canoe destroyed at potlatch |
Tsatisichnukwomi
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| 2004.29.3536 | House posts. Ucluelet. |
British Columbia
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