Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2007.31.009
Accession#:
2007.31
Credit Line:
Donated by Kathleen Jamison Whitson.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
A Siwash Camp
Year Range from:
1900
Year Range to:
1902
Description:
Sepia colored photo of a tent camp site with a wood canoe in foreground. A caption in lower proper left is "A Siwash Camp". The number 31 is in lower proper left. A man leans on a large wood canoe covered with laundry. A child and two people in hats are in front of the leaning man. An open umbrella is on the ground next to another child in middle proper right. A woman in a long dress in the background proper left near a full clothesline. A couple of paddles are visible below the foreground canoe at proper right. A snow covered ridge with trees on the slopes fills the background.
Notes:
Joseph McDonald was Treadwell Mine Superintendent from 1900 to 1902.
People:
MacDonald, Joseph
Search Terms:
Camping
Native
Canoe
Home Life
Tlingit
Boat
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