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Mâts totémiques Kwakwaka'wakw, Alert Bay, C.-B., vers 1890
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Mâts totémiques Kwakwaka'wakw, Alert Bay, C.-B., vers 1890

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Kwakwaka'wakw totem poles, Alert Bay, BC, about 1890
SignatureImprinted on paper label, REDPATH MUSEUM-McGILL UNIVERSITY
Date About 1890
Medium / Technique Silver salts on glass
Gelatin silver process
Dimensions8.3 x 10.2 cm
Origin Canada
Object NumberMP-0000.25.514
CollectionMcCord
CreditGift of Stanley G. Triggs
Status
Not on view

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