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Author/Creator:Luck, Owen Craig, 1947- photographer.
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Title:[Photographs of Alaska and Haida Gwaii, British Columbia].
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Production:[New York], 2011-2012.
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Physical Description:5.84 linear feet (3 boxes)
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
Signed, numbered, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
Arranged by the photographer.
Inscriptions in English.
Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2013.
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Organization:Organized into four series: I. Black-and-White Photographs, 11 x 14 Inches (28 x 36 centimeters), 2011. II. Black-and-White Photographs, 16 x 20 Inches (41 x 51 centimeters), 2011. III. Black-and-White Photographs, 20 x 24 Inches (51 x 61 centimeters), 2011. IV. Color Inkjet Prints, 17 x 23 Inches (43 x 60 centimeters), 2011-2012.
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Biographical / Historical note:Owen Luck is an American photographer known for his photography of Native American and First Nation Canadian life and history.
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Summary:Photographs of Alaska and Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, 2011-2012, printed as thirty-three black-and-white gelatin silver prints and five color inkjet prints that chiefly document Haida and Tlingit people, sites, and cultures.
Images of Haida people and sites in 2011 include the installation of totem poles at Hydaburg, Alaska, and views of Ninstints, a historic Haida village site. Portraits of Haida include Crystal Robinson, Darin Swanson, Mary Swanson, Candace White, and Christian White.
Images of Tlingit people and sites include the installation of totem poles at Kalwock, Alaska, in 2011, and a celebration in Juneau, Alaska, in 2012. Identified Tlingit include members of dance groups including the Heinyaa Khwaan Dance Group led by Jonathan O. Rowan, Jr.
Several images document dance groups including Haida members of the Tluu Xaada Naay (Canoe Peoples House) Dance Group from Massett, British Columbia, and Tsimshian members of the Git-Hoan (People of the Salmon) Native Dance Group from Metlakatla, Alaska.
- Format:Visual Material
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
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Cite as:Owen Luck, Photographs of Alaska and Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Subjects:Luck, Owen Craig, 1947-
Robinson, Crystal--Portraits.
Rowan, Jonathan O., Jr.--Portraits.
Swanson, Darin--Portraits.
Swanson, Mary--Portraits.
White, Candace--Portraits.
White, Christian, 1962---Portraits.
Haida Indians--Pictorial works.
Indians of North America--Pictorial works.
Tlingit Indians--Pictorial works.
Totem poles--Alaska--Hydaburg--Pictorial works.
Totem poles--Alaska--Klawock--Pictorial works.
Totem poles--British Columbia--Ninstints Site--Pictorial works.
Tsimshian Indians--Pictorial works.
Alaska--Pictorial works.
British Columbia--Pictorial works.
Haida Gwaii (B.C.)--Pictorial works.
Hydaburg (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Klawock (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Ninstints Site (B.C.)--Pictorial works.
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Genre/Form:Inkjet prints.
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12408101