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Crow in the Whales Belly (AL+CA 1463)

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Native American motif rendering from James Swan's notebook.

Note from James Swan: Crow dives down in ocean and enters the whales mouth and lodges in its belly where it eats the vitals and whale swims ashore and is killed by the Indians, who in cutting it up release the crow which becomes a great Tomanawos or medicine man.

On verso of drawing: Drawn by Johnny Kit Elswa a Haida in my office Port Townsend, Dec. 14th 1882

Subjects (LCTGM): Haida Indians--Arts & crafts

Subjects (LCSH): Haida art; Crows in art; Whales in art

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1882
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Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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