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Beaver Totem
Chief Shake's House
Interior with curios, some 300 yrs old or older; Interior Chief Shake’s house, Wrangell, Alaska.
Collection 1886-1887
Tlingit artifacts collected by Lt. George T. Emmons and sold to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where it still resides. Included in the photograph are bentwood boxes, bowls, aprons, masks, shamans grave guardian figures, and a beaver bowl from Angoon (AMNH cat. #19/1257), which probably came from the Deisheetaan clan. -SH 2/96
1887 Ft. Wrangell
Structure covered with slabs of cedar bark; man and child on porch surrounded by dogs