MAKE A MEME View Large Image Post card. Thlinget Totems, Alaska. - NARA - 297746.jpg Scope and content Text on card The top figure represents the crest of the owner of the house the next one below his wife's crest; one next in order the crest of the mother of the owner ...
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Keywords: Post card. Thlinget Totems, Alaska. - NARA - 297746.jpg Scope and content Text on card The top figure represents the crest of the owner of the house the next one below his wife's crest; one next in order the crest of the mother of the owner of the house; then the fourth in order is his wife's mother's crest; after these the next one is the owner's uncle's crest and the last one the crest of the owner's wife's uncle As a rule there are only four figures carved on the totems; only the greatest chiefs have six figures carved General notes 297746 Local identifier Wellcome Henry S Henry Solomon Sir 1853-1936 NARA's Pacific Alaska Region Anchorage NRIAA 654 West Third Avenue Anchorage AK 99501-2145 Record group Collection WME Sir Henry Wellcome Collection 1856 - 1936 Record group ARC 1208 Photographs of the Inhabitants of Metlakatla British Columbia and Metlakatla Alaska compiled ca 1856 - 1936 Series ARC 297169 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRIA-WME-PHOTOS-P802<br /> Other Identifier Box 278 Other versions <gallery> File Post_card _Thlinget_Totems _Alaska _-_NARA_-_297746 tif tif File Post_card _Thlinget_Totems _Alaska _-_NARA_-_297746 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Tlingit Postcards of Alaska
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