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Yatza

Author/Photographer Dawson, George

Donor Phillips/Dalzell

Date1913

MediumPrints

Dimensions17.8 × 12.8 cm (7 × 5 1/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineThe American Museum of Natural History neg. # 106694

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Object numberPh 03294

DescriptionBlack and white photograph of Yatza, west of Virago Sound. Only complete Haida house in existence in 1913. Yatza (Knife Village) was on Klaskwan Point. George Dawson, in 1878, reported 8-10 houses and very few poles.

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