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Alaska
Alaska
NT Howkan
NT Kasaan
NT Ketchikan
NT Metlakatla
NT Howkan
NT Kasaan
NT Ketchikan
NT Metlakatla
Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a landscape. According to annotations, photograph was taken in Dead Horse Gulch on the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, Alaska, along the "Trail of '98"
File mainly contains historical images of Haida and Tlingit villages and totem poles located on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia and Alaska. There are also images of Haida and Tlingit peoples dressed in regalia. Other photos include images of Haida and Tlingit artifacts, such as bentwood boxes and carvings, housed in various museums around the world. There are also images of a modern day ceremony in front of some totem poles and long houses. The textual records include photocopies of images of totem poles and Haida and Tlingit villages.
File consists of slides depicting one of Minn Sjolseth's paintings ("Village Watch"), Sjolseth working on a painting, a slide bearing the caption "Queen Ch. Island group," and several slides captioned "Caspar at Ketchikan."