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Ksan Performing arts group at the NAC in Ottawa. Raven mask in the foreground and large sun mask behind.

Twelve men and youths wearing spruce root hats, carved helmets, and masks. One man in Chilkat tunic, and another in fur trim tunic with beaver design. Wood carving of woodworm girls's head in foreground. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.

Chilcat dancer holding mask instead of trophy head.

Detail of a Chilcat warrior dancer with daggars and wearing the frog in the sun crest of the Tlingit.

Chilkat people wearing dancing costumes

In the centre stands Kuwdu.aat, with his son. They stand between two decorated bentwood boxes that hold the lineage's sacred items. The box on the left slides over the box on the right as a top. Behind them on the right is a mask made in the image of X'akat. ahan, the woman who raised the Wood Worm. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.

Detail of a famous photograph by Winter & Pond. The image shows the Wood Worm post carved by Kad-jis-too-ach, a portion of the Rainwall Screen and clan members displaying their clan items. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.

Ganaxtedi clan members pose inside the Whale house. The Raven post, carved by Kad-jis-too-ach, and rainwall screen can be seen in the background. Mother basket can be seen at the bottom centre.

The Whale house family of Gaanaxteidi men among some of their at.oow (sacred items).

Large group of female performers wearing button blankets and other performance regalia.

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).

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…

Chilkat men and boys posing in dancing atire.

Dancers at the Klukwan Potlatch

"Dance of the sticks at the Klukwan Potlatch" Interior of Frog house.