MS 2389 Mortuary customs of Indians in Southwestern Alaska
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2389
name: label: Creator
content: Swan, James G., 1818-1900
label: Addressee
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
topic: label: Topic
content: Death and mortuary customs
creator: label: Creator
content: Swan, James G., 1818-1900
label: Addressee
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18 Pages
label: Extent
content: 2 Drawings (visual works)
unitdate: label: Date
content: January 15, 1881
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Clerk's copy of a letter to Major Powell."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2389
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Drawings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: On Negative Microfilm Reel 29.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Description of mortuary customs of the Akaskan Indians on Prince of Wales Islands and Tongass, southwestern Alaska, and two drawings of which Swan was an eye witness during his cruise on the U. S. Revenue Steamer Oliver Wolcott in the summer of 1875.