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Box PCA0088-Box1

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Contains 86 Results:

Totem Poles, Ft. Wrangel, Alaska, 1887. [Fort Wrangell] [Three totem poles in front of two wooden homes.*]

 Item — Box: PCA0088-Box1
Identifier: PCA0088-30
Scope and Contents no. 7310. Per Steve Henrikson, Curator, Alaska State Museum 2/1996: 30. Tlingit houses and totem poles at Wrangell. Three totem poles in front of a row of Tlingit houses. The pole at left is unidentified, and seems to have the following figures (top to bottom): killer whale (orca), seated humanoid, bird of prey (hawk?), humanoid bear, and a squat face or "stump" figure. The poles at center and right, which feature single carved figures of birds at the top, are probably mortuary...
Dates: 1886-1887

Totem Poles, Ft. Wrangel, Alaska 1887. [Fort Wrangell] [Two Tlingit totem poles in front of houses.*]

 Item — Box: PCA0088-Box1
Identifier: PCA0088-31
Scope and Contents no. 731? Per Steve Henrikson, Curator, Alaska State Museum 2/1996: 31. Two Tlingit totem poles in front of houses and outbuildings at Wrangell. These poles stood in front of the house of Kadashan, a chief of the Stikine Kaskakwedi clan. Today, the poles are known as "Kadashan Crane Pole" (left) and "Kadashan Red Snapper Pole" (right). These poles once stood in front of an elaborate two-story house built by Kadishan in 1887. Kadishan was a leader of the Wrangell Tlingit. Both...
Dates: 1886-1887

Chief Shokes House, Fort Wrangle [Chief Shakes] [Fort Wrangell] [Tlingit Indians posed in ceremonial dress. *]

 Item — Box: PCA0088-Box1
Identifier: PCA0088-32
Scope and Contents no. 7895. Per Steve Henrikson, Curator, Alaska State Museum 2/1996: 32. Group of Tlingit Indians in front of Chief Shakes House and Totem Poles, Wrangell. A group of Tlingit Indians, probably of the Naanya.aayi clan, dressed in ceremonial regalia. At far left, several women and children are seated. Then (l to r), two men wearing white shirts decorated with a shark or dogfish design, holding song leaders paddles; man with beaded shirt and apron; man in doorway dressed in...
Dates: 1886-1887

Muir Glacier. Alaska, U.S. 1887. [four men in small boat looking up at the face of the glacier.]

 Item — Box: PCA0088-Box1
Identifier: PCA0088-34
Content Description From the Collection:

Includes images of people and scenics from Sitka, Juneau, Ft. Wrangell, Killisnoo, Douglas, Wrangell, Treadwell. Also includes portraits, totems, and Chief Shakes’ funeral. Additional comments, explanations, history and identifications by Steve Henrikson, curator, Alaska State Museum, Feb. 1996, have been included with the individual items in ArchivesSpace.

Dates: 1886-1887

[Untitled. Muir Glacier.]

 Item — Box: PCA0088-Box1
Identifier: PCA0088-38