234 results for: Northwest Coast Native Peoples
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Tal Tan Billy, Alaska, circa 1898 - 1920
The Tlingit are a group of Indigenous peoples whose traditional home is on the coast of southeastern Alaska. The Tlingit, as well as neighboring groups, weave elaborate ceremonial blankets with abstracted images of animals. The blankets are called Chilkat blankets after one of the Tlingit tribes, and are traditionally worn during important events.The man in this photograph wears a woven…
ID Number:SHS14164
Date:Circa 1909
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Tlingit boy wearing a woven hat, Sitka, circa 1915
The Tlingit people have lived on the coast and islands of what is now southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. Tlingit society is organized into clans, which follow maternal descent. Fishing, gathering, and hunting were central to historic Tlingit lifeways. They used salmon, shellfish, seals, berries, deer, and other food sources, making sure to use every part for different purposes, not…
ID Number:SHS14167
Date:Circa 1915
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Steilacoom John and Annie, circa 1905
The Steilacoom are a Coast Salish people whose historic lands are near the current town of Steilacoom, southwest of Tacoma. The Steilacoom consisted of five bands: Steilacoom, Sastuck, Spanaway, Tilhlow, and Segwallitchew. Unlike many of their neighbors the Steilacoom did not live near a glacier-fed river, but on land featuring a group of lakes and creeks. The Steilacoom were affected…
ID Number:SHS19058
Date:Circa 1905
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Quileute Indians in a western Washington hop field, 1904
The Quileute are an Indigenous people whose historic lands are on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula, in the valleys of the Quillayute and Hoh Rivers. The Quileute are not related to either the Makah to the north or the Coast Salish peoples of western Washington and the Quileute language is unrelated to any other in the world. Quileute…
ID Number:SHS19061
Date:1904