MAKE A MEME View Large Image Totems near Ketchikan, Alaska. - NARA - 297715.jpg Scope and content On Backing On reverse side of this postal in space provided for name of addressee is following in handwriting 'Mr Henry S Wellcome c/o Mr Wm Duncan Metlakahtla Alaska In ...
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Keywords: Post card. Totems near Ketchikan, Alaska. - NARA - 297715.jpg Scope and content On Backing On reverse side of this postal in space provided for name of addressee is following in handwriting 'Mr Henry S Wellcome c/o Mr Wm Duncan Metlakahtla Alaska In space provided for correspondence is following 'My dear Mr Wellcome Having found this card this morning I am sending it to you in lieu of a photograph of the totems on Village Id It covers only a small group but the one in the middle of the three frogs is particularly interesting I think --however I am sorry to have mislaid my own negative as it covered the entire group I have never been able to learn to what tribe these totems belong With Village Id being so near Annette Id it seems reasonalble to suppose the Metlakahtla Indians may have erected them Perhaps Mr Duncan may know Kindest regards to you all at Metlakahtla Mrs C G Quillian ' General notes 297715 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-P766<br /> Other Identifier Box 278 Other versions <gallery> File Post_card _Totems_near_Ketchikan _Alaska _-_NARA_-_297715 tif tif File Post_card _Totems_near_Ketchikan _Alaska _-_NARA_-_297715 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Totem poles in Alaska Postcards of Alaska
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