photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Am,B43.25
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); view of a Haida totem pole in front of the frame of a timber house, what was either the Goose or Bear House. From top to bottom the pole features crests of a chief holding a talking stick, a sea-grizzly (sea monster), a shaman holding two rattles made of puffin beaks, a large whale and a sea-grizzly between tail fins of a killer whale. Riding on the sea-grizzly's head is a small human figure. Another carving is leaning over in the foreground; Kayang, Canada.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1884
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.90 centimetres (image)
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Height: 23.10 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 18.30 centimetres (image)
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Width: 18.70 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related image: Am,B43.24
Object in collection: Am1903,0314.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Dirt & blue mark on image
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,B43.25
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 2103/857 (Old BM series number)
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Miscellaneous number: 69 (Series number)