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Large food dish and ladle. Kwakiutl. Negative number 7911. 50.

Photographer: Unknown, Non-Indian

 

Subject: Museum of the American Indian - Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989

 

Date Created: circa 1920

 

Catalog Number: L00050

 

Image Type: Lantern Slide

 

Dimensions: 3.25 x 4 in.

 

Collection History: Presumably commissioned by George Heye to document the early work of the Museum of the American Indian.

 

Description: Two unidentified women posed, one sitting in large food dish (NMAI catalog number 068742.000) and the other holding ladle. Photographed at the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation

 

Place: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway; New York City, Manhattan; New York County; New York; USA

 

Site Name: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway

 

Island Name: Manhattan Island

 

Culture/People: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl),Non-Indian

 

Culture Hierarchy: Central Northwest Coast>Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)

 

Persistent URL:www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn...

 

Repository:National Museum of the American Indian

 

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