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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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Makah dancing at Colman Dock, Seattle, March 22, 1941
The Makah people of the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula refer to themselves as Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx, which translates roughly to "the people who live by the rocks and seagulls." The early Makah were skilled mariners, using several types of canoes which they carved from western red cedar for various purposes - war, whaling, fishing, sealing, carrying cargo, and long voyages.…
ID Number:PI23844
Date:1941
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Tlingit women weaving baskets, Alaska, circa 1897
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. They used every part for different purposes, not wasting…
ID Number:SHS1766
Date:Circa 1897
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Woman weaving a Chilkat blanket, Alaska, circa 1904
The Chilkat are a Tlingit tribe who have lived in and around their village of Klukwan on the Chilkat River, in southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. They lived on foods available on their lands as well as trading with other tribes on the Pacific coast and inland. Settlers came to Chilkat lands in large numbers in the early 20th century,…
ID Number:SHS1773
Date:Circa 1904
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Photographer Edward S. Curtis, Seattle, 1951
Edward Sheriff Curtis was born in Wisconsin in 1868. He moved to Seattle with his mother and siblings around 1890 and became a professional photographer. Through the decade, Curtis became a respected photographer across the United States. Edward's brother Asahel was also a well-known photographer, but they were permanently estranged after Edward claimed Asahel's work as his own. In the…
ID Number:SHS5202
Date:1951