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| Title | Makah family under a fly tent at Port Townsend, August 30, 1899 |
| Photographer | Wilcox, William Holmes |
| Studio Location | United States--Washington (State)--Port Townsend |
| Date | 1899 |
| Notes | The Makah, of Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula, travelled frequently to Port Townsend to trade or to make a stopover on their canoe journeys into Puget Sound. Photographer William Wilcox took candid pictures which show us details of their everyday life. We see that the family in this photograph has a commercially-manufactured tent and that the man uses a metal axe to split their firewood.
William Holmes Wilcox became interested in photography soon after settling in Tacoma in 1890. He moved to Port Townsend, on the Olympic Peninsula, in 1897, where he worked for the customs service and frequently went on photographic trips with local banker/photographer James McCurdy. Wilcox moved to California in 1916 but returned to the Pacific Northwest in 1924. He died in 1940. (Bob Cole, "William Holmes Wilcox: Amateur Photographer as Artist." Portage 2, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 1980-81):4-9.) |
| Subjects | Makah Indians--Domestic activities; Makah Indians--Structures; Dwellings--Washington (State)--Port Townsend; Clothing & dress--Washington (State)--Port Townsend; Families--Washington (State)--Port Townsend; Tents--Washington (State)--Port Townsend |
| Location Depicted | Washington (State)--Port Townsend |
| Object Type | Glass negatives |
| Physical Description | Glass negative |
| Negative Number | Wilcox 5090 |
| Digital Collection | American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Images
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| Collection | Wilcox Collection |
| Repository | Museum of History and Industry, Seattle
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions see:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/ordering.php
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| Acquisition | Gift of the Wilcox Family, 1993; acc. no. 93.1 |
| Restrictions | http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/copyrights.html |
| Transmission Data | Image/JPEG |
