Carved doorpost in Alaska – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Carved doorpost in Alaska
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A carved doorpost fills this c1881 photoprint, the kind of house post that Northwest Coast peoples of southeastern Alaska raised with clan crests and family histories cut into the wood. The print is credited to H.H. Brodeck, whose copyright is recorded on the photograph, at a time when outside visitors were increasingly documenting Indigenous architecture and art. The catalog data comes from an old caption card and has not been verified, so the specific village and carver remain uncertain. Even so, the image preserves a view of carving that was often damaged or lost as communities changed.
| Created / published | c1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by H.H. Brodeck. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,155 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108240 |
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