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Eskimo Grave, Kotzebue Sound
Dr. Samuel J. Call1897
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View of an indigenous Alaskan burial. A body that has been completely wrapped in cloth lies atop wooden stilts that have been crossed and tied together to created scaffolding.
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Details
- Title: Eskimo Grave, Kotzebue Sound
- Creator: Dr. Samuel J. Call
- Date Created: 1897
- Location Created: Kotzebue Sound, Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States
- Physical Dimensions: 11.3 × 16.4 cm (4 7/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XA.1547.8
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Dr. Samuel J. Call (American, 1858 - 1909)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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