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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-6833, described as Willie Seaweed; full figure portrait. Carved headdress represents a killer whale and two ravens. Willie holding a rattle and copper (ceremonial plaque). Per Door Book/Accession Record: Willie Seaweed portrait; full figure.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-6828, described as Panel in Alert Bay Cemetary. Coper and sisiutl. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Panel--in Alert Bay cemetary--copper and sisiutl.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-6832, described as Willie Seaweed, close up profile, Blunden Harbor, B.C., 1951. Willie Seaweed (1873-1967), one of the most important Kwakiutl carvers in the 20th century. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Willie Seaweed, close-up profile.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6870, described as Interior of traditional-style house. Blunden Harbour, B.C., 1951. Interior of large house on left in photo 13-6869. Related families lived in small enclosures built within the large space. Decorative patterns made by hand adz. Bulbs on beam ends are kelp bladders. Wooden Figure as a "speaker figure" used to welcome guests to potlatch Feast, often with Chief's orator speaking from behind the carving. Per Door Book/Accession Record: interior of a house.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6861, described as Woman digging clams. Blunder Harbor, B.C. 1951. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Woman digging clams.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6865, described as Mungo Martin and wife Sarah Hunt (Abayah) Martin, drumming and singing. Thunderbird Park, Victoria, B.C.; October 1961. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Mungo Martin and wife, drumming and singing, Thunderbird Park.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6869, described as Village, Blunden Harbor, B.C.; 1951. Village abandoned in 1966. Interior of large house on left is photo 13-6870. Large house collapsed in the late 1950s.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6858, described as Willie Seaweed Tsonoqua Pole. Nimpkish cemetery, Alert Bay, B.C.; 1951. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Willie Seaweed and tsonoqua pole at Alert Bay, 1951.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6868, described as Dancer wearing an owl mask. Mask carved by George Walkus of Smith Inlet about 1920. Chief Charlie George at right. Blunden Harbour, B.C.; 1951. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Dancer with owl mask, Chief Charlie George at right.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6866, described as Mungo Martin steaming a board for a box. Thunderbird Park, Victoria, B.C., October 5, 1961. Box making technique called Kerfing. A plank is split from a cedar log, notched in 3 places, steamed, bent, and then pegged at the seam, a top and bottom are added from another plank. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Mungo Martin steaming board.

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