Painting a hat, Nakoaktok
The painter is clad in a short, seamless, cedar-bark cafe, which is worn for protection from rain. That she is a woman of wealth and rank is shown by the abalone-shell nose-ornament and the gold bracelets, no less than by her possession of a "chief's hat." These waterproof hats, of a...
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| Format: | Still Image |
| Language: | English |
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E. S. Curtis (Seattle); The University Press (Cambridge, Mass)
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| Online Access: | http://cdm15831.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll8/id/265 |
| Summary: | The painter is clad in a short, seamless, cedar-bark cafe, which is worn for protection from rain. That she is a woman of wealth and rank is shown by the abalone-shell nose-ornament and the gold bracelets, no less than by her possession of a "chief's hat." These waterproof hats, of a form borrowed from the Haida, are made of closely woven shreds of fibrous spruce-roots, and are ornamented with one of the owner's crests- a highly conventionalized painting of some animal or mythological being. |
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