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“Chief Delivering Speech at Festival” print of painting by Wilhelm Kuhnert, Plate 10 in book The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, 1897.

A grey scale horizontal print shows a male chief with a headdress, shirt, and wrap around his waist. He stands in front of a pile of white blankets with his hand extended. Next to him are two standing men, draped in blankets. They and the chief stand in the center of a circle of men sitting on the floor, with crossed legs, all wearing blankets over their shoulders. In the distance, there are carved totem poles and buildings made of wood with pitched roofs.

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