231 results for: Northwest Coast Native Peoples
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Mattie Wheeler Howeattle, Taholah, 1965
Mattie Wheeler Howeattle (1861-1967) was an enrolled member of the Quinault Indian Nation. She married Washington Howeattle, a Quileute tribal member and representative of the Quinault Council. The couple lived in Taholah and were well-known for their knowledge of Quilieute and Quinault traditions, and Mattie was an accomplished basket and doll maker.Mattie Howeattle lived to be 106, and photographer Josef…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.198
Date:1965
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Felix Solomon, Lummi Reservation, 1979
Felix Solomon (1889-1981) was a Lummi elder, fisherman, farmer, and hunter. This portrait was taken by photographer Josef Scaylea in 1979.Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.219
Date:1979
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Sherman Dominick, 1970
In the 1960s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), coordinated a series of protests and peaceful demonstrations…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.240
Date:1970
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William Frank, Sr., 1980
William Frank, Sr. (1879-1983) was a Nisqually elder, early tribal government official, and leader in the struggle for Indigenous fishing rights. His name at birth was Qu Lash Qud, and he was renamed Frank while at boarding school, after a white homesteader for whom his father worked. In 1917, the US Army took most of the Nisqually Reservation to expand…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.249
Date:1980
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Indigenous women making baskets, Olympic Peninsula, 1926
The women from coastal Washington's Indigenous tribes are known for their basketry. They made twined, coiled, and plaited baskets for gathering clams and berries, storing and serving food, and many other purposes. Basketry techniques were also used for hats and other clothing. At the start of the 20th century, Indigenous artists in the Pacific Northwest were making baskets specifically for…
ID Number:PI23768
Date:1926
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Indigenous group in ceremonial dress, Seattle, 1931
This image shows a group of Indigenous people dressed in elaborate ceremonial dress in the summer of 1931. It is possibly in connection with a display of Northwest Indigenous culture at the Seattle Exposition and Outdoor Show, which included a war dance demonstration every evening. The two men on the right wear feather headgear typical of Coast Salish spirit dancers.…
ID Number:PI23790
Date:1931
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Canoe race at Coupeville festival, August 9, 1936
In 1936, the Coupeville Indian Water Festival culminated in a race of traditional canoes crewed by Indigenous people from Washington and British Columbia. Eleven canoes started the three-mile race in Penn's Cove on August 9, 1936, but only eight managed to finish. High winds caused three canoes to sink; the Lone Eagle from the Lummi Reservation sank only a few…
ID Number:PI23809
Date:1936
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Swinomish drummer and singer at the Treaty Day observance, January 22, 1939
The Swinomish are a Coast Salish group whose historic lands were in the Skagit and Samish River valleys as well as Whidbey, Camano, Fidalgo Islands, and the San Juan Islands. They lived in large permanent villages during the winter, then spread out in spring and summer to gather resources – salmon from the rivers, shellfish from the coastline, cedar wood…
ID Number:PI23822
Date:1939
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George and Mary Adams standing outside their home, Port Gamble Reservation, February 1939
In February 1939, the representatives of the Port Gamble band of the Clallam (now S’Klallam) people invited a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and photographer to come to their village south of Hansville on the Olympic Peninsula. Chairman of the tribe’s governing committee Benny George, along with his aid Jackson and Rev. Karl Leonard of Bremerton, had been in contact with the…
ID Number:PI23825
Date:1939
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Josie Anderson digging clams, Port Gamble Reservation, February 1939
In February 1939, the representatives of the Port Gamble band of the Clallam (now S’Klallam) people invited a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and photographer to come to their village south of Hansville on the Olympic Peninsula. Chairman of the tribe’s governing committee Benny George, along with his aid Jackson and Rev. Karl Leonard of Bremerton, had been in contact with the…
ID Number:PI23827
Date:1939