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Start Over Object class Photographic prints by color Collector William R. Heick Culture or time period North American native cultures
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Black-and-white print, accession number 13-6827, described as 3 men eating during a night chant (yeifichai) Totso Trading Post (Jukachukai, AZ) December 12-21, 1963. Man in center is the night chant singer, son of Slim Curly. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Man eating during a ceremony, Arizona 1963
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 13-6833, 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 13-6830, described as Nancy White Horse (Brule Sioux) making cakes from pounded choke berries. Rosebud Reservation, SD, August 20, 1962. Cleaned, stemmed fruit had been placed in a rawhide container, pounded with a hammerstone or an anvil, formed into cakes and dried 3-4 days. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Mixing choke berries with meat. Blackfoot.
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 Black-and-white print, accession number 13-6826, described as Navajo boy (8 years), a patient at Red And Ceremony. Valley store, near Chinle, AZ. June 12-21, 1963. A healing ceremony to appease the Ant People after boy had urinated on ant hill. Also knowns as Red Ant holy way or Ant Way Ceremony. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Little Boy, patient at Red Ant Ceremony, medicine man (Dezchinin Nez Begay), Arizona 1963
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 13-6847, described as Woman and man making sandpainting (dry painting). Night Chant (Yeibichai). Totso Trading Post, Lukachukai, AZ; December 13-21, 1963. Far view of entire painting. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Woman and man making a sand painting, far view of entire painting, Yeibichai, Arizona, 1963.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6848, described as woman and man making sandpainting, close up. Night Chant (Yeibichai). Totso Trading Post, Lukachukai, AZ; December 13-21, 1963. Per Door Book/Accession Record: woman and man making a sand painting, close up, Yeibichai, Arizona 1963.

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