Carved House-Post
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Mar 1917
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Theodore F. Rixon
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "8 feet high. One of the corner posts of Tlokwali house situated at Beaver Prairie, Clallam Co., Washington. Carving represents guardian spirit of builder and owner of the house. Anthropomorphic figure cut from log painted red yellow and black. Nose set on."
label: Notes
content: Per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 2011, house post Cat. # E298996-0 is similar in form to one illustrated on far left in drawing by Ollie Obi in the National Anthropological Archives - NAA INV08655600, Manuscript 1802, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Caption for drawing: "Totem Poles in the Potlatch Hall at La Push, Quileute Reservation, Wash. drawn in the colors as the[y] appear in that hall."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Beaver Prairie, Clallam County, Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Quileute
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 060981
label: USNM Number
content: E298996-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: House Post
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 33 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 231 cm