Skidegate

• Main Author: Unknown
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Documentary Photograph; Native American: Haida; Canadian; totem-pole; totem pole; totem-poles; totem poles; villages; village; First Nations; First Nation; potlatch; potlatches; ceremonies; ceremony; gift; gifts; gift-giving festival; festivals; British Columbia; Canada; Queen Charlotte; Skidegate
• Online Access: http://digital.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arthist2/id/69741

Photographic and postcard views of the Northwest Coast villages were favorite tourist collectibles during the late 19th century. The village of Skidegate was one of the two Haida villages that remained occupied after the devastation of the epidemics of the 1860s, and its display of poles was especia...