Name(s): Burger, Hillel
Description: This appears to be the detail of a visor.
Date: 1895
Description: The Whale house family of Gaanaxteidi men among their at.oow (sacred items). "Left is a man with a beaver apron, S'igeidi K'ideit. His hand is on the Wood Worm Dish that extends to the right behind the other men. According to Jennie, the Wood Worm Dish was used to feed the Naanyaa.aayi at a ceremonial in Klukwan. The next man standing to the right is Naatl (John James) who wears a leather painted copy of the X'atgu Dogfish Tunic design. In the foreground sits an unknown man holding a pole or…
Date: 1895 to 1905
Name(s): Nowell, F. H.
Description: "Group of Sitka Indians at Klukwan Potlatch" This man is performing a dance with a stick in his mouth.
Date: 1895
Description: The Whale house family of Gaanaxteidi men among their at.oow (sacred items). In the centre stands Kuwdu.aat, with his son. Kuwdu.aat and his boy stand between two decorated bentwood boxes that hold the lineage's sacred items. On top of the one on their right is a mask made in the image of X'akat. ahan, the woman who raised the Wood Worm. (description given by Jennie Thlunault in Nora Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer. Has K̲usteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories).
Date: 1895 to 1905
Name(s): Nowell, F. H.
Description: "Group of Sitka Indians at Klukwan Potlatch" Man posing with cedar ring around his neck.
Date: 1895
Description: The Whale house family of Gaanaxteidi men among their at.oow (sacred items). The man holding the rifle or shotgun (blunderbuss) is Kindaxgoosh. To the left of him is a bent wood box with a mask made in the image of X'akat. ahan, the woman who raised the Wood Worm. Kindaxgoosh was the man building the Whale house when he drowned trying to retrieve a canoe that had drifted away on the currents of the Chilkat River. After he drowned, the Whale House remained unfinished until a woman of that house…
Date: 1895 to 1905
Name(s): Nowell, F. H.
Description: "Group of Sitka Indians at Klukwan Potlatch." Men dancing with sticks in their mouth.
Date: 1895
Description: View of the back row of people standing between the posts carved by Kad-jis-too-ach and in front of Rain Wall screen. These appear to be young boys who can be seen posing at the exterior of the house in another winter and Pond photograph (Klukwan016). A number of the items displayed here were collected by Louis Shotridge for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A frontal pole that features three watchmen, a cormorant, and a supernatural snag in two manifestations: The upper is a bear like figure holding two human figures, and the lower is a human figure with a stick rising from its head. At the base is a sea grizzly with the whales tale in its mouth.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A frontal pole that features three watchmen, a cormorant, and a supernatural snag in two manifestations: The upper is a bear like figure holding two human figures, and the lower is a human figure with a stick rising from its head. At the base is a sea grizzly with the whales tale in its mouth.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A frontal pole that features three watchmen, a cormorant, and a supernatural snag in two manifestations: The upper is a bear like figure holding two human figures, and the lower is a human figure with a stick rising from its head. At the base is a sea grizzly with the whales tale in its mouth.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A frontal pole that features three watchmen, a cormorant, and a supernatural snag in two manifestations: The upper is a bear like figure holding two human figures, and the lower is a human figure with a stick rising from its head. At the base is a sea grizzly with the whales tale in its mouth.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: One of the All Hat exterior house posts of the House of Gaum. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: One of the All Hat exterior house posts of the House of Gaum. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Description: Detail shot of three bone amulets.
