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Identifier: annualreportofbo1888smiths (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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all its details, the costume shown in Plate ix well illus-trates the height to which the native arts of weaving, inlaying, carving,and dyeing had risen on this coast before being influenced by the ad-vent of the whites. The dress of a Chilkat chief, encountered by Vancouver at LynnCanal in 1794 is thus described by him: His external robe was a very fine large garment that reached from his neck downto his heels, made of wool from the mountain sheep, neatly variegated with several EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX. General Type of Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit Chiefs Costume. From photographs and sketches by the author The details of this costume are shown in Plate X. In the top of the head-dress,within the fringe formed by the seal whiskers, aquatic birds or eagles down is gen-erally placed, which, m the ceremonial dances, falls and floats in the air about thewearer like snow on a winters day, adding much to the picturesqueness of the scene. Report of National Museum, 1 888.—Niblack. Plate IX.
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General Type of Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit Chiefs Costume. EXPLANATION OF PLATE X,

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