Kwakiutl,Nootka Indian tribes of British Columbia Native Americans

Kwakiutl and Nootka Indian tribes of British Columbia
Title: Kwakiutl and Nootka Indian tribes of British Columbia
Creator(s): Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer
Date Created/Published: c1910-c1914.
Summary: Summary: 12328-A-Kwakiutl: Portraits of men (including a chief and a warrior) and women (including a chief's daughter), many wearing ceremonial clothing and nose rings, many identified; ceremonial dancers (including Winter Dance participants), some holding skulls and skeleton parts, wearing masks, wigs, fur, feathers, and cedar bark clothing, some resembling animals, and performing rituals including a healing; a bridal ceremony; men and women rowing in dugout canoes and sailboats; a group playing a hand game; an octopus hunter; women gathering clams and abalone shells on the shore; a woman painting a spruce root hat; a woman preparing cedar bark; a skeleton on a burial platform; totem poles and other carvings; houses and villages; structural house frames; and distant views of a cemetery and a mortuary house. 12328-B-Nootka: Women, wearing cedar bark clothing, in or near canoes and a nude man holding a bow and arrow. 12328-B-Hesquiat: A young woman wearing attire of a virgin; and women, wearing cedar bark clothing, carrying baskets, boarding canoes, and preparing to pick berries or gather bark. 12328-B-Clayoquot: Women gathering seaweed and rowing canoes; a whaler holding a spear and performing a ceremony; and a man spearing fish.
Notes:
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Copyright deposit; Edward S. Curtis; 1910-1914.
Most (119) published in The North American Indian / by Edward S. Curtis. New York : Johnson Reprint Corp., [1970, c1907-30]. (E77.C98) (NAI and Suppl.)
Subjects:
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--1910-1920.
Kwakiutl Indians--Clothing & dress--1910-1920.
Kwakiutl Indians--Structures--1910-1920.
Kwakiutl Indians--Spiritual life--1910-1920.
Nootka Indians--Subsistence activities--1910-1920.
Whaling--British Columbia--1910-1920.
Portrait photographs--1910-1920.
Bookmark /00652928/
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