PN00251
Photograph Number: 00251
Group: Kwakwaka'wakw
Location: Kalugwis
Collection: Newcombe
Catalogue No.: E13-X/13 L
Photographer:
Date: 1900 April 1st (FROM NOTE BOOK #5 NEWCOMBE NOTES)
Remarks: Kalowkis (Tlawitsis) - general - showing house where G. Hunt assisted in Hamatsa dance - after which he was arrested.

"Wa'ka-lus = rainbow" (from original print)

Rainbow house, Henry SPECK's house - house front painting changed at each potlatch given (per J. Peters, APR.19-20/78)

SEE ALSO INFORMATION TAKEN FROM NEWCOMBE NOTEBOOK #5 IN PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES. THIS IS NOW IN PHOTO CATALOGUE.

"SEVERAL LARGE NEW TOTEM POLES HERE, SOME OF OLD ONES FORMING MAIN SUPPORT OF ROOF, THUS: [small sketch]"
FROM: NEWCOMBE NOTEBOOK #5 IN PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES

For an earlier view of Kalokwis see PA 37936, taken in 1885.

For further information see: photo catalogue.