Tlingit interior displaying blankets, carvings, and flag-covered coffin, Wrangell, Alaska, 1887

• Main Author: Partridge, William H.
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Tlingit Indians > Structures; Tlingit Indians > Clothing & dress; Tlingit Indians > Arts & crafts; Funeral rites & ceremonies > Alaska > Wrangell; Interiors > Alaska > Wrangell; Furnishings; Morrison; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/loc/id/1806; http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmlview.exe?CISOROOT=/loc&CISOPTR=1806

Interior of large single room, wooden step down onto main floor. On main floor by stove is a coffin covered in an American flag, set on a table covered in a button blanket. A woman sits on the floor near it and other carvings. On the upper level, a man and woman sit on opposite sitrs of the coffin,...