Franz Boas posing for figure in USNM exhibit entitled "Hamats'a coming out of secret room" 1895 or before

National Museum of Natural History

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Digital surrogate produced from glass plate negative
Date: Not recorded; 1895 or before.
Original glass negative.
Black and white original glass negative
Addl. KW Subjects
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Summary
Notations on back of photograph of exhibit (USNM Kwakiutl no Number): "U.S.N.M. Rept. (1895) Plate 29 Hamats'a coming out of secret room," and "Kwakiutl Indian ceremony for expelling cannibals."
Cite as
Negative MNH 8301, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Repository Loc.
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland
Culture
Kwakiutl Indians
Indians of North America Northwest Coast of North America
1895
1895 or before
Local number
OPPS NEG MNH 8301
Type
Photographs
Physical description
1 8x10 in photograph
National Anthropological Archives
Record ID
siris_arc_94372
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Digital surrogate produced from glass plate negativeDate: Not recorded; 1895 or before.Original glass negative.Black and white original glass negativeKwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)Notations on back of photograph of exhibit (USNM Kwakiutl no Number): "U.S.N.M. Rept.
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