Full View of Multiplying Wolf

Date
1966
Photographer: De Menil, Adelaide
Description

The Multiplying Wolf Post of Chief Anaaxoots. Didicated at the ©last potlatch© held on Japonski Island near Sitka on December 23, 1904. The hosts of the potlatch, the Kaagwaantaan clan, affirmed their social status by dedicating five monumental wooden carvings. The Multiplying Wolf Posts were carved by Silver Jim (Kichxook) and installed in James Jackson©s Wolf house. Notes from University of Pennsylvania, Expedition Magazine Vol 47 No 2

Subject (Geographic)
Sitka
Keywords
Tlingit
Alaska
Housepost
SNHP
totem
monument
Northwest Coast
Native
First Nation
Art
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
de_Menil_Slide_Donation487
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Copyright owner(s)

© Adelaide de Menil.

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