Box 4

Box 4 is divided into 13 folders and 5 envelopes and contains black and white portraits, field photographs, a business card, and reproduction of a painting. The mounted black and white portraits of Northwest Coast Indians include Nootka, Haida, and Chinook Indians. Some are marked by the photographer, Naegeli in New York City.

In Folder 5, many of the portraits have Boas’ handwritten captions on the back and are labeled as “Taken by The Hastings Art Studio.” Subjects of the portraits include tattooed Northwest Coast Natives.

Folder 7 contains a Carl Gunther business card with a posed Bella Coola Indian on the front.

Folder 9 contains a black and white photo of an 18th century sketch entitled, ‘Cheslakee’s Village in Johnstone’s Straits.’ The sketch was originally done by J. Sykes, circa 1798.

Envelope 15 includes a professional black and white photo of James Teit with three Thompson Indians, credited to The King Studio, Vancouver B.C. Thompson Indians were named after a river in the area they inhabited in the southern interior of British Columbia and call their entire tribe Ntlakyapamuk.

The field photographs include black and white photo of totems from Portland, Oregon, Wrangell, Alaska, and Howkan, Alaska, as well as photos of the Stikine River in British Colubmia.

In Folder 8 the black and white photo of the painting of Haietlik in Nootka, B.C. may have been taken by Boas or Hunt. The Haietlik is a mythical water serpent of the Nootka.

Other photographers include S.A. Spencer, F.W. Carolyn, and Maynard. Envelope 17, circa 1911, contains 1 black and white reproduction of a painting with NW Indian activity, by Will S. Taylor.