Motion picture film

Museum number:

26-417

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.1994

Description:

Totem pole construction

Donor:

American Indian Film Project and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Verbatim coll. place:

N. America:N.W.Coast

Culture or time period:

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)

Collection date:

1960-1965

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Motion pictures (moving images), Motion pictures (visual works), and Totem poles

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Accession date:

1965

Department:

Still and motion photography

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