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Title
Totem poles, Alert Bay, Vancouver Island
Creator
H. H. Tammen Co
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Ed Fletcher Papers
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Located in Series 6) Photographs, Photo Albums and Memorabilia subseries.
C110. Caption on back: Alert Bay seems to be the most southerly boundary of the country that uses Totem Poles. The Nimikish Indians of Alert Bay are different in language and customs from all the tribes of the North. The Totem Poles, however, have characteristics somewhat similar.
Souvenir postcard was originally laid in an album documenting a 1953 trip to Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Ed Fletcher Papers (Box 79, Folder 4).
[Title, Date]. Ed Fletcher Papers. MSS 81. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
H.H.T. Co. Made in U.S.A.
Type
image
Format
1 postcard; 3.5 x 5.5 inches
Language
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Subject
Totem poles
Alert Bay (British Columbia)
Place
Alert Bay (British Columbia)

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