Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)

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Native North American Art

Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy),

before 1885

Lingít
ui.2011.8
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Title
Aaak'wtaatseen (Salmon Boy)
Dates

before 1885

Medium
Wood with red and black paint
Dimensions
33.3 × 9.4 × 7.8 cm (13 1/8 × 3 11/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
ui.2011.8
Place Collected

North America, Sheet'ká Ḵwáan (Sitka)

Marks/Labels/Seals
Inscribed in red pencil [Jackson collection number]: J.260
Culture
Native American, Lingít
Type
oral histories, tourist trade, figurines
Materials
wood, paint, pigment
Techniques
carving
Subject
people, fish, salmon

Collected by Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, in or after 1877; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), 1882-1885

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