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postcard, photographic print   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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postcard, photographic print
Description
English: Postcard (black and white); view down an earthen tree lined pathway; several carved Tlingit totem poles are alongside the pathway, with what appears to be the Yaadass Crest Corner Pole at the front of the image; Sitka National Historical Park, United States of America.
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Date 19thC(late)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 13.70 centimetres
Width: 8.90 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Accession number
Am,B59.50
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Context: It appears that the carving in the front of this image is likely theYaadass Crest Corner Pole, which would have originally stood at one of the exterior corners of the Yaadass clan house of Old Kasaan. The human figure at the top is the Village Watchman. Below the Watchman is Raven in human form. The next figure is also Raven, while the base figure appears to be a bear. Figures below the Village Watchman may be crests of the clan who owned the house and could represent incidents in the real or mythical history of the clan. The pole was collected in 1903 or 1904, having been donated by clan leader John to Territorial Governor John Brady for a totem pole exhibit at the 1904 World’s Fair inSt. Louis. In 1905, the pole was exhibited at the Lewis and Clark Centennial

Expedition in Portland, Oregon before being brought to Sitka in 1906. but has since been replaced with is a copy carved by Tlingit artist Tommy Jimmie in 1978, the original Yaadaas Crest Pole having been carved between 1885 and 1893.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Am-B59-50
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