Chilkat Indians in dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, ca. 1895
The costumes worn by these dancers at Klukwan include button-design and beaded tunics, with elaborately-beaded aprons and fringed leather shirts. The boy in the darker costume wears a wig and headdress of mountain goat horn normally reserved for the ixt, or spiritual leader. All five of the men have...
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| Summary: | The costumes worn by these dancers at Klukwan include button-design and beaded tunics, with elaborately-beaded aprons and fringed leather shirts. The boy in the darker costume wears a wig and headdress of mountain goat horn normally reserved for the ixt, or spiritual leader. All five of the men have nose rings, a common adornment in earlier times, but the boys do not wear them. The Chilkat are a coastal Tlingit people. Caption on image: "Chilkat Indians in dancing costumes, Alaska" "Copyright by Winter & Pond." Photographers Lloyd V. Winter and Percy E. Pond opened their Juneau, Alaska, studio in 1893, and documented the people and places of southeastern Alaska until the mid-1940s. (Victoria Wyatt, Images from the Inside Passage: An Alaskan Portrait by Winter & Pond, pp. 13-14.) |
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