page_title: James G. Swan
hierarchical_section_title: James G. Swan
caption_attribution_description: English: Black-and-white photographic portrait of Indian agent James G. Swan by Spencer &amp; Hastings, taken just before departing the Queen Charlotte Islands. Carte-de-visite. Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel Collection of Western American Art, Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
context_page_description: James Gilchrist Swan was an American Indian agent in what is now the U.S. state of Washington, who was known as an authority on the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, an Indian artifact collector on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, and for writing the first ethnography of the Makah tribal group, among whom he lived.
  A curious and creative man, his imaginative ambitions included a fantasy of making paper from Puget Sound seaweed.
context_section_description: James Gilchrist Swan (January 11, 1818 – May 18, 1900) was an American Indian agent in what is now the U.S. state of Washington, who was known as an authority on the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, an Indian artifact collector on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, and for writing the first ethnography of the Makah tribal group, among whom he lived. 
  A curious and creative man, his imaginative ambitions included a fantasy of making paper from Puget Sound seaweed.
caption: Portrait of James G. Swan, 1883
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