Detail: Double Mortuary

Date
1967
Personal name
Photographer: De Menil, Adelaide
Description

Depicted on the frontal plaque is the dogfish wearing a large labret. This form of dogfish came from a Sitka, Alaska, story in which a woman chief began to change into a dogfish while talking to her friends one day. Her nose lengthened and curved into her mouth, but her labret remained in place. The long nose was a piece attached to the plaque that has fallen off.

Physical location
Bill Reid Centre at Simon Fraser University
Subject (Geographic)
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Identifier
Kuuna34
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