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Title
Chiefs Tos Kone and Took to Elth, Kake, Alaska
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1912-1920
Publication Information
Purity Pharmacy, Juneau, Alaska
Ella Strong Denison Library; Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection of Travel and Early Los Angeles Music
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/.
Description
Title taken from image. Two men with atypically painted faces, one wearing a Chilkat blanket and the other holding a hand drum, standing in front of carved totem poles. A third man leans on a totem pole in the background. According to the Sealaska Hetitage Institute [1], citing E.L. Keithahn's book Monuments in Cedar, p. 73 the two men in costume are white Kake settlers and collectors, Fred Sepp (l) and Ernest Kirberger (r). Unused, hand colored, with divided back. Described as a view card, based on realistic image of a specific location.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
bbf00404.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll2/id/317
Language
English
Subject
Postcards--1900-1920
Postcards--Alaska
Totem poles--Alaska
Chilkat blankets
Ethnic costumes--United States
Musical instruments
Drums
Headgear
Settlers
Place
Kake (Alaska)
Source
Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection, Box 6, Folder 30
Relation
Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection of Travel and Early Los Angeles Music - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll2

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