File:Tlingit totem in cemetery, Wrangell, Alaska, ca 1900 (MEED 7).jpg

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English: Tlingit totem in cemetery, Wrangell, Alaska, ca. 1900.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Goetzman, H. J.
Title
English: Tlingit totem in cemetery, Wrangell, Alaska, ca. 1900.
Description
English: Caption on image: "Totem, Wrangel, Alaska"

Known as the "One-legged Fisherman pole", it was erected by Shakes VII in honor of his uncle, Kauk-ish, who died in 1897. Also shown is a stone grave marker, "In memory of Kauk-Ish, died 1897, age 68 yrs."

PH Coll 246.3

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Totem poles--Alaska--Wrangell; Monuments & memorials--Alaska--Wrangell
  • Subjects (LCSH): Tlingit art--Alaska--Wrangell; Tlingit sculpture--Alaska--Wrangell; Tlingit wood-carving--Alaska--Wrangell
Depicted place Wrangell, Alaska
Date circa 1900
date QS:P571,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
7
Source
English: William E. Meed Collection
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Order Number
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MEE194

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