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Crow in the Whales Belly
Title
Crow
in the
Whales
Belly
Date
1882
Notes
Native
American
motif
rendering
from
James
Swan's
notebook.
Note
from
James
Swan:
Crow
dives
down
in
ocean
and
enters
the
whales
mouth
and
lodges
in its
belly
where
it
eats
the
vitals
and
whale
swims
ashore
and
is
killed
by the
Indians
,
who
in
cutting
it
up
release
the
crow
which
becomes
a
great
Tomanawos
or
medicine
man.
On
verso
of
drawing:
Drawn
by
Johnny
Kit
Elswa
a
Haida
in
my
office
Port
Townsend
,
Dec.
14th
1882
Subjects (LCTGM)
Haida
Indians--Arts
&
crafts
Subjects (LCSH)
Haida
art;
Crows
in
art;
Whales
in
art
Location Depicted
Canada--British
Columbia
Digital Collection
Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
Order Number
AWC1930
Ordering Information
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Repository
University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository Collection
James
Swan
papers.
Accession
no.
1703-1
,
Box
11/1
Object Type
Drawing
Physical Description
Pencil on paper
Digital Reproduction Information
Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004.
Restrictions
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