"Chief Yen-aht-setl, Chief of the Yakutats," holding rattle
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.42119
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Libbey, William
creator: label: Creator
content: Libbey, William
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit -- Yakutat
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Tlingit
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Libbey, William
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: "He was the chief of Teqwedi's Shark House on Khataak Island - the most important man at Yakutat." Died ca. 1890. -Information from Frederica de Laguna.

Photographer: Professor William Libbey of Princeton.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1886
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published in "The Pageant of America," volume II, page 303, with legend: "A Yakutat (Tlingit) Priest, from a photograph, courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York."
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Front section of headdress carved of wood with abalone shell inlay. Topknot may be of feather quills with feathers stripped off, or of sea lion whiskers with feathers tied on. Pendants of ermine skins with heads and tails suspended from top of headdress. Tsimshian-like rattle.