IDNO

P.8449.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “This is the ‘alhotla haykloos’. Alxotla is the society of biters, approximately cannibals. The collar is of cedar bark, dyed, with pendant weasel skins. The blanket is ornamented with tufts of cedar bark.” [typed text]

Place

N America; ?Canada; ?British Columbia; Bella Coola

Cultural Affliation

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

Named Person

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

CUMAA Exhibition: A reproduction of this image was displayed in Collected Sights in the section Fieldwork and Scholarship with the descriptive label:
“Haddon’s student Thomas McIllwraith during his fieldwork with the Bella Coola on the Northwest Coast of Canada. He is wearing a cedar bark neck ring decorated with pendant weasel skins and a blanket with tufts of cedar bark associated with the initiates of a secret society.” [Sudeshna Guha 27/11/02]