Portfolio plate no. 358
Title
Masked dancers - Qagyuhl
Curtis Caption
The plate shows a group of masked and costumed performers in the winter ceremony. The chief who is holding the dance stands at the left, grasping a speaker's staff and wearing cedar-bark neck-ring and head-band and a few of the spectators are visible at the right. At the extreme left is seen a part of the painted mawihl through which the dancers emerge from the secret room; and in the centre, between the carved house-posts, is the Awaitlala hams'pek, showing three of the five mouths through which the hamatsa wriggle from the top to the bottom of the column. See page 175 and footnote.
Creator
Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952
Physical Description
1 photogravure : brown ink ; 31 x 43 cm [plate size]
Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son
Date of Original
1914
Source
The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.10, The Kwakiutl ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1915), plate no. 358
Relation
Digital images of the plates supported by an award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, and mounted in American Memory. See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
Digital reproduction of the photomechanical print
Digital I.D.
cp10030
Rights
For educational, non-commercial use only. Written permission
required for any reproduction beyond fair use. Credit: Northwestern
University Library, Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian," 2003.
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/
