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Title: [Drawings of Chinook or Flat Head and Haida Indian tribal culture]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1850]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Six small drawings apparently features of Chinook and Haida Indian culture. Clockwise from upper left: castanet (fantastic wooden rattle), pipe bowl in slate, cradle (front view), canoe tomb, warrior's tomb (more elaborate buildings), cradle (side view) around a skull facing to left. These tribes apparently lived in Pacific Northwest region (Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska).
Supplied title. Handwritten (MC): N.W. American Indians/Chenook or Flat Head. Each drawing captioned individually. Handwritten (modern?) on mount: (UL): Brit[ish] Col[umbia]; (UR, on mat): Haida tribe/Queen Charlotte Island. The group of drawings 1963.002:0283 - 1963.002:0301 appear to be related. Some share stylistic, physical, and topical characteristics and may have came from the same source. For more information see Inventory Sheets.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and wash 27.2 x 22 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5489p2fc
BANC PIC 1963.002:0292--B
Subject: Children
Funerary facilities
Indians of North America
Northwest, Pacific

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