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Title: Postcard, Three Brothers, Old Head-Men of the Kak-Von Tons
Creator: Case and Draper
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1912-1920
Publication Information: 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. Three men, identified as L-R: Ka-Sh-Ak, Monkeyman. Skan-Doo , medicine man and Ind-A-Yanek Indian guide. (L-R: Kaalgéi, Sx'andu.oo and Swáatk'i (Yindayáank'.) Wearing traditional garb including chilkat blankets; man in center is wearing a beaded necklace, decorated robe, a headdress. All three are holding what appear to be raven or bird rattles. Unused, monochromatic, with divided back.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: bbf00396.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll2/id/299
Language: English
Subject: Postcards--1900-1920
Postcards--Alaska
Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Antiquities
Chilkat blankets
Alaska Natives
Headgear
Musical Instruments
Chiefs
Ethnic costumes--United States
Men's clothing--United States--History
Draper, Herbert H., 1855-1913
Case, William H., 1869-1920
Place: Alaska (United States)
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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