Carved House-Post
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Mar 1917
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Fannie E. Taylor
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Fannie E. Taylor
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "One of the corner posts of last Tlokwali house. Carving (man and whale) represents guardian spirit of owner and builder of house. Newer carving. Carved from a log. Figure carved in relief on slab. No legs. Clasps whale in front of his body. Headdress of feathers set in wood. Painted black and white on face."
label: Notes
content: Per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 2011, house post Cat. # E299078-0 is similar in form to one illustrated second from 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: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: La Push, Quileute Reservation / 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: 060982
label: USNM Number
content: E299078-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: House Post