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Frederick Dally
Burial site of an Indigenous Canadian San Juan Islander : 'Indian Chiefs grave-San Juan Island. British Columbia'
1870 (ca)
Albumen print
23.5 x 18.4 cm (image)
The Royal Collection
RCIN 2368830
LL/105278
Photograph of a grave site of an Indigenous Canadian Chief. A long canoe containing the deceased, is propped against the branches of two cedar trees. In the branches of the tree on the right is a plank box which contains another body.
Written in the album underneath the main title is the following: 'The body was rolled up in blankets then deposited in his canoe and titled up against a branch of the cedar tree, another body in a plank box is placed just above the canoe.'
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