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Aglegmiut shaman in costume, Nushagak, ca. 1908
Aglegmiut shaman in costume, Nushagak, ca. 1908
TitleAglegmiut shaman in costume, Nushagak, ca. 1908
PhotographerThwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940
Dateca. 1908
NotesAlthough forbidden by the Christian missionaries, these masks and outsized hands were still made and used in the early 1900s by the Aglegmiut. The photographs taken by John Thwaite are believed to be the only images of an actual shaman wearing these ceremonial costumes.

Caption on image: Eskimo medicine man, Alaska

PH Coll 247.180
Subjects (LCTGM)Shamans--Alaska--Nushagak
Subjects (LCSH)Ceremonial objects--Alaska--Nushagak; Koniagmiut Eskimos--Clothing--Alaska--Nushagak; Koniagmiut Eskimos--Alasks--Nushagak--Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America--Alaska--Nushagak
Location DepictedUnited States--Alaska--Nushagak
Digital CollectionJohn E. Thwaites Photographs
Order NumberTHW098
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Negative NumberTHWAITES 247.180
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionJohn E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003.
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