Group of Indians in old dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, ca. 1895

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries
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• Published: Winter & Pond
• Subjects: Yeilgooxu (Tlingit Indian); Ceremonial dancers > Alaska > Klukwan; Tlingit Indians > Clothing & dress; Tlingit Indians > Children; Tlingit Indians > Structures; Men > Alaska > Klukwan; Children > Alaska > Klukwan; Hats; Masks; Dwellings > Alaska > Klukwan; Indian; Percy; Wyatt; tlingit; Alaska
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Men and boys dressed in dance regalia pose in front of the house of Chief Klart-Reech at Kluckwan, Alaska. The man in the center, wearing the highly-patterned Chilkat tunic, is Yielgooxu, a hereditary chief of the Kluckwan Whale House. The man next to him wears a fur-trimmed shirt with a beaver design. Several of the masks and spruceroot hats appear in photos of the interior of the Whale House taken by the same photographer. The mixture of native and European clothing is typical of this time period. The Chilkat are a coastal Tlingit people. Caption on image: "Ixterior [sic] of chief's house. Chilkat Indians in old dancing costumes, Alaska. Copyright 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.)