Date
1950
Description
Interior of Johnny Scow's House with Atlakim dancers. The Atlakim dance is a winter ceremonial dance using forty masks, each with associated songs and dances. It celebrates the different guardian spirit powers to be found in the forest. The masks seen here are now in UBC and Denver collections. The posts are now in the Seattle Art Museum.
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Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Identifier
Gwayasdums18
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