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Title
[Chinook artifacts]
Creator
Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Date Created and/or Issued
1848
Publication Information
London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : in a series of letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing. : with three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings / by Geo. Catlin, Vol. 2, plate 120, no. 210 1/2.
Image 210 1/2 shows Chinook cradleboard and several skulls, Chinook canoe, Na-as war-canoe, ladles for bailing canoes, Stikeen mask, custom of Na-as women wearing block of wood under lip, wapito diggers used to dig the wapito root, pau-to-mau-gons (or po-ko-mo-kons) war-clubs, carved pipes.
2010-6694GEN.
Type
image
Format
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 print : lithograph, col. ; image 6 3/4 x 4 7/8 in. on page 9 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001485503CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Indians of North America--Columbia River Valley--Pictorial works
Chinook Indians--Pictorial works
Indian weapons--Columbia River Valley--Pictorial works
Cradleboards--Columbia River Valley
Canoes--Columbia River Valley
Masks--Columbia River Valley
Pipes (Smoking)
Arms & armament--Columbia River Valley
Columbia River Valley--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Place
Columbia River Valley

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