Word: totem
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Peabody Museum has recently received a very valuable totem pole from Alaska, the gift of Mr. E. H. Harriman. The specimen is a Haida pole, 25 feet in length and is one of five carried away recently from Cape Fox Village by the Harriman Scientific Expedition. The pole was obtained for the Peabody Museum by Mr. Charles Palache. Cape Fox Village, which is on the mainland about 50 miles above the southern boundary of Alaska, was abandoned by the Indians twenty-five years...