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Inscribed in black ink #6271, with paper label inscribed 'WC - 1 / SALMON CLUB / KWAKIUTL INDIANS. / N.W. COAST A.6271 / FROM HUDDS COLL / 1932', on a modern stand
19 in. (48 cm.) high; 2 in. (5 cm.) wide; 212 in. (6 cm.) deep
Provenance
William Hubbs Mechling (1888-1953), Canada, inv. no. 6271.
A private collection, USA.
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William Hubbs Mechling was an anthropologist, who studied the peoples of the North West coast of North America. Some of his essays are amongst the Meinhard Papers in the Manuscript Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

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