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Start Over Culture or time period Central Northwest Coast cultures Function 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled 16mm motion picture film, accession number 26-458, described as Kwakiutl: Cedar box; Mungo Martin affixing bottom to box with dowel; cutting, trimming, fitting top for box. Northwest Coast (various): approx. 250' of Provincial Museum displays: Kwakiutl hunter gearbox, old native "copper," Tsimshian carved box, black cod kelp lines, carved spoons. 16mm film, reel 427, 825', camera rolls 450, 445-446 Original
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled 16mm motion picture film, accession number 26-456, described as Kwakiutl: Cedar box; tree felling, log splitting, plank making and trimming; scoring, steaming, bending planks for sides; splitting, trimming, and fitting bottom; fitting top and affixing handles. Museum display of finished cedar boxes. 16mm film, reel 347A, 1000', Original Outs & Trims
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled 16mm motion picture film, accession number 26-446, described as Kwakwaka'wakw: Mungo Martin measuring, scoring board for bending at corners of cedar box, drills holes for string ties; Mungo and Henry Hunt erect and repair Henry's finished totem pole. Provincial Museum display of doctor's beaver tooth crown, inlaid spoons; late 19th century totem pole photographs. 16mm film, reel 341, 600', camera rolls 438-440, 447-449, 451-454 Original.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled 16mm motion picture film, accession number 26-445, described as Kwakwaka'wakw: Henry Hunt painting raven totem pole; Mungo Martin splitting slab to make cedar box, using knives, mauls, and adzes to trim boards for sides of box. 16mm film, reel 340, 500', camera rolls 428-437 Original
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled 16mm motion picture film, accession number 26-455, described as Kwakiutl: Cedar box; Mungo Martin scoring and steaming plank in preparation for bending and forming into sides of box; splitting log to make plank for bottom; shaping bottom; securing bottom to sides with dowels. 16mm film, reel 342, 350', camera rolls 442-444 Original Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled 16mm motion picture film, accession number 26-440, described as Kwakiutl/Haida/Bella Coola/Tsimshian house fronts and totem poles, plus 50' app. of Mungo Martin carving pole with adze. 16mm film, reel 333, 425', camera rolls 324-325 Original Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-426, described as Totem poles
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-431, described as Mungo Martin making a cedar box, from raw plank to finished box. Work print "outs".
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Motion picture film, accession number 26-427, described as Totem poles
Hearst Museum object titled Post, accession number 2-9221, described as One of pair of house posts from interior of a plank house. Have projection at the top for mortising to roof poles (Charles Brown, 12 June, 1964). Represents an ancestor.

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