IDNO

P.8448.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “An alxotla’s costume. The wooden masks represent skulls, the wearer having the prerogative of eating corpses. The wearer is T.F.M.” [typed text]

Place

N America; Canada; British Columbia; Bella Coola

Cultural Affliation

Northwest Coast Indian; Salishan; ?Coast Salish; ?Nuxalk [historically Bella Coola]

Named Person

Thomas F. McIllwraith

Photographer

McIllwraith, Thomas F.

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort; McIllwraith, Thomas F.

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)McIllwraith, Thomas F.

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: Presumed to be Bella Coola as the previous photographs in this series belong to this group.