Masked Dancers in Canoes - Qagyuhl (a) (1914)
Photogravure
Portfolio X, plate 351

"Visitors approaching a village where the Winter Dance is in progress sometimes array themselves in their ceremonial costumes, and dance while the canoes slowly move shoreward. From left to right the dancers represent respectively Wasp, Thunderbird and Grizzly Bear."-Curtis

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