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

• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• 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 desi...