House post representing the speaker of the house
date: label: Date created
content: 1800-1900
name: label: Culture/People
content: Koskimo Kwakwaka'wakw
label: Previous owner
content: Chief Kelagius, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: Previous owner
content: Chief Walas, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: Collector
content: Dorr F. Tozier (D. F. Tozier), Non-Indian, 1843-1946
label: Previous owner
content: Dorr F. Tozier (D. F. Tozier), Non-Indian, 1843-1946
label: Previous owner
content: Seattle Land and Improvement Company
label: Previous owner
content: Fred E. Sander (Fred Everett Sander), Non-Indian, 1854-1921
label: Seller
content: Seattle Land and Improvement Company
label: Seller
content: Fred E. Sander (Fred Everett Sander), Non-Indian, 1854-1921
label: Seller agent
content: George Louis Berg (G. L. Berg), Non-Indian, 1868-1941
notes: label: Collection History
content: Formerly installed at the house of Chief Kelagius (Kwakwaka'wakw) and subsequently owned by Chief Walas (Kwakwaka'wakw); collected between 1894 and 1907 by Captain Dorr F. Tozier (1843-1926, associated with the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service); Tozier's collection was purchased in 1909 by the Washington State Art Association (Seattle, Washington); when the Association defaulted on its payments for the collection in 1916, it became the property of the Seattle Land Improvement Company, owned by Fred E. Sander (1854-1921); in 1917, George Louis Berg (1868-1941, director of the Washington State Art Association) negotiated on Fred Sander’s behalf to sell the collection, which was purchased that year by MAI using funds donated by MAI’s Board of Trustees.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Quatsino Sound; Mount Waddington Regional District; British Columbia; Canada
label: Archipelago
content: Vancouver Island Group
label: Island Name
content: Vancouver Island
setName: label: See related items
content: Koskimo Kwakwaka'wakw
label: See related items
content: Architecture/Housing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 7/5488
label: Barcode
content: 075488.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Architecture/Housing
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: House post representing the speaker of the house
label: Media/Materials
content: Cedar, paint
label: Techniques
content: Carved, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 81 x 275 cm