Eaton Photographs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4579
label: Local Note
content: Filed: Photos, Northwest Coast
name: label: Creator
content: Eaton (photographer and/or collector)
place: label: Place
content: Alaska -- glacial features
topic: label: Topic
content: Photographs
label: Topic
content: Basket making
label: Topic
content: Death and mortuary customs
label: Topic
content: Camps -- Alaska
creator: label: Creator
content: Eaton (photographer and/or collector)
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
label: Culture
content: Chilkat Tlingit
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20 Prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1906
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received from Dr Lloyd G. Henbest, U. S. National Museum, 12/2/53. The prints were received by Mrs Henbest's father, A. L. Ross of Versailles, Missouri, who evidently received them from Mr Eaton. Memo of Henbest to Philip Drucker, 12/2/53, with prints.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4579
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Subjects: Chilkat Indians, surveyors' camp on Chilkat River, Alaska, and geological and scenic views in Chilkat Valley, Alaska, made and/or collected by a Mr Eaton. U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, apparently in connection with a boundary survey, ca. 1906.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Catalog Number 4579: (1) Tribe: Tlingit (Chilkat) Description: Tlingit woman weaving baskets Photographer: Mr Eaton Date: ca. 1906. (2) Tlingit (Chilkat) A Chilkat Indian family Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (3) Tlingit (Chilkat) A Chilkat Indian grave Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (4) Tlingit (Chilkat) The Orca or Whale Killer. (front of a charnel house) Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (5) Camp near boundary across Chilkat River. Timber cutters. Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (6) Camp on boundary, Chilkat River Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (7) Looking down Chilkat Valley Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (8) Terminal moraine of a glacier Mr Eaton ca. 1906.. (9) A hanging glacier Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (10) Surface of glacier showing crevasses Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (11) Baldy Peak Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (12) Ice caps in the summits. Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (13) An inacessible point Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (14) Dyen River near Canyon City, Alaska Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (15) Young spruce and pine restocking a burnt area Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (16) Running the line through birch and alder timber Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (17) Head of Chilkat glacier Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (18) Boundary Monument Number 47I. Chilkat Valley. Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (19) "An icy road ahead" Mr Eaton ca. 1906. (20) A vista along the line across Chilkat Valley Mr Eaton ca. 1906.