Three Frog Detail

Date
1966
Photographer: De Menil, Adelaide
Description

These frogs are to represent three Kiksadi women, Tlingit whom belong to the frog clan. The three women cohabitated with Chief Shakes' slaves. The pole is said to be a ridicule pole carved to force payment for the Kiksadi Chief who would not pay for Shakes housing the three Kiksadi women. The Kiksadi Chief had said the women disgraced themselves, by marrying beneath them

Physical location
Bill Reid Centre at Simon Fraser University
Subject (Geographic)
Wrangell (Alaska)
Keywords
Tlingit
Alaska
carving
totem
Art
Northewest Coast
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
Wran._66-7-38N-20
Copyright
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Terms of use
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Copyright owner(s)

© Adelaide de Menil.

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