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Box 4

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Photograph of tattooed Haida or Nootka Indian, 1890s

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

Contains 1 professional portrait of Nootka or Haida Indian man from that was first taken by Naegeli Studios in New York before being mounted and presumably used at The World’s Columbia Exposition of 1893. There appear to be notes from Boas on the back reading: "Only if tattooing will show plainly!" This photograph appears to be the same man featured in Box 1, Folder 9.

Dates: 1890s