[Totem poles at Old Kasaan village, southeastern Alaska]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: BAE GN.4320
name: label: Creator
content: Emmons, George Thornton
creator: label: Creator
content: Emmons, George Thornton
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Emmons, George Thornton
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Glass negative
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1885
label: Date
content: 1885
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Glass negatives
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Poles in foreground show the crests of Chief Skowl, identified as Raven stealing the sun; Raven putting back his beak after having lost it on the hook of the Halibut Fisherman; Grizzly Bear and the young woman or the cubs. Reproduced in T.T. Waterman, "Observations among the Ancient Indian Monuments of Southeastern Alaska," Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 74, No. 5, 1923 (SI-EFW for 1922) fig. 118; and in Marius Barbeau, "Totem Poles," National Museum of Canada Bulletin 119, 1950, Vol. 2, p. 574.