Photographs that primarily document the activities of Makah Indians in the vicinity of Neah Bay, Washington, August 2005, A series of images documents Makah Indian canoes participating in the Inter-Tribal Ocean-Going Canoe Journey, Paddle to Elwha, in August 2005. The journey included Peril Point in Clallam Bay, Washington, and Sooke and Beecher Bay in British Columbia, as well as arriving for an inter-tribal rendezvous at Port Angeles, Washington, Images in the state of Washington include the Makah Days celebration in Neah Bay, fishing with gillnets on the Sooes River, a series of portraits created in a longhouse of the Makah Indians, and a prison sweat lodge ceremony at the Clallam Bay Correctional Facility in Clallam Bay, and A series of images documents the dedication of a totem pole in Comox, British Columbia
Description:
Photographs signed by the photographer on verso. and Collection includes brief descriptions of the photographs by the photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State), Beecher Bay, Clallam Bay (Wash.), Comox (B.C.), Makah Indian Reservation (Wash.), Neah Bay (Wash.), Port Angeles (Wash.), Sooes River (Wash.), and Sooke (B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Luck, Owen Craig, 1947-, Clallam Bay Corrections Center, and Makah Days (2005 : Neah Bay, Wash.)
Subject (Topic):
Gillnetting, Indians of North America, Fishing, Makah Indians, and Totem poles
