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Chilkat Indians in dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, ca. 1895
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| Title | Chilkat Indians in dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, ca. 1895 |
| Studio Name | Winter & Pond |
| Studio Location | United States--Alaska--Juneau |
| Date | ca. 1895 |
| Notes | The costumes worn by these dancers at Klukwan include button-design and beaded tunics, with elaborately-beaded aprons and fringed leather shirts. The boy in the darker costume wears a wig and headdress of mountain goat horn normally reserved for the ixt, or spiritual leader. All five of the men have nose rings, a common adornment in earlier times, but the boys do not wear them. The Chilkat are a coastal Tlingit people.
Caption on image: "Chilkat Indians in dancing costumes, Alaska" ; "Copyright by Winter & Pond."
Photographers Lloyd V. Winter and Percy E. Pond opened their Juneau, Alaska, studio in 1893, and documented the people and places of southeastern Alaska until the mid-1940s. (Victoria Wyatt, Images from the Inside Passage: An Alaskan Portrait by Winter & Pond, pp. 13-14.) |
| Subjects | Ceremonial dancers--Alaska--Klukwan; Tlingit Indians--Clothing & dress; Tlingit Indians--Children; Men--Alaska--Klukwan; Children--Alaska --Klukwan; Hats |
| Location Depicted | Alaska--Klukwan |
| Object Type | Silver gelatin prints |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin print ; good. |
| Negative Number | SHS 1769 |
| Digital Collection | American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Images
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| Collection | Seattle Historical Society 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 Mrs. William E. Boeing, 1953; acc. no. 1769 |
| Restrictions | http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/copyrights.html |
| Transmission Data | Image/JPEG |
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