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English: Crow in the Whales Belly   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Crow in the Whales Belly
Description
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Native American motif rendering from James Swan's notebook.

Note from James Swan: Crow dives down in ocean and enters the whales mouth and lodges in its belly where it eats the vitals and whale swims ashore and is killed by the Indians, who in cutting it up release the crow which becomes a great Tomanawos or medicine man.

On verso of drawing: Drawn by Johnny Kit Elswa a Haida in my office Port Townsend, Dec. 14th 1882

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Haida Indians--Arts & crafts
  • Subjects (LCSH): Haida art; Crows in art; Whales in art
Depicted place British Columbia
Date 1882
date QS:P571,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: Pencil on paper
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
1463
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English: Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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