MAKE A MEME View Large Image Chief Shake's house and totems. - NARA - 297734.jpg Scope and content The house is a typical community house of the higher class Indians The left hand totem is that of the Ko-na-ka-det a monster of the sea that brings good luck The right ...
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Keywords: Post card. Chief Shake's house and totems. - NARA - 297734.jpg Scope and content The house is a typical community house of the higher class Indians The left hand totem is that of the Ko-na-ka-det a monster of the sea that brings good luck The right hand totem commemorates the time in which the bear climbed the mountain at the time of the flood and saved people By permission of the author of Totem Lore General notes 297734 Local identifier Wellcome Henry S Henry Solomon Sir 1853-1936 NARA's Pacific Alaska Region Anchorage NRIAA 654 West Third Avenue Anchorage AK 99501-2145 Record group Collection WME Sir Henry Wellcome Collection 1856 - 1936 Record group ARC 1208 Photographs of the Inhabitants of Metlakatla British Columbia and Metlakatla Alaska compiled ca 1856 - 1936 Series ARC 297169 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRIA-WME-PHOTOS-P790<br /> Other Identifier Box 278 Other versions <gallery> File Post_card _Chief_Shake's_house_and_totems _-_NARA_-_297734 tif tif File Post_card _Chief_Shake's_house_and_totems _-_NARA_-_297734 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Wrangell Alaska Tlingit Totem poles in Alaska Postcards of Alaska
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