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Title: Postcard, Shaman healing a sick woman
Creator: Case and Draper
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1912-1920
Publication Information: W.H. Case, 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. Tlingit ritual healing of woman by shaman (Skan-doo, or Sx'andu.oo) represented in this image, with indigenous carvings, Chilkat blanket, bedding juxtaposed in this staged scene. Unused, monochromatic, with divided back.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: bbf00394.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll2/id/293
Language: English
Subject: Postcards--1900-1920
Postcards--Alaska
Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Antiquities
Chilkat blankets
Ethnic costumes--United States
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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