Ethel M. (Clayton) Montgomery photograph collection [graphic], 1934-1989.

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Ethel M. (Clayton) Montgomery photograph collection [graphic], 1934-1989.

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Box 1: The photograph collection, ca. 1934-1989, contains black-and-white and color photographs, slides, illustrations, and graphics from ANAC and Montgomery's personal papers. Subjects include Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative Association, Inc., Tlingit Indians art, Alaskan Eskimos art, Alaskan Natives industries, tuberculosis in Alaska. Box 2: Before her death Ethel Montgomery documented her adoption by Chilkat weaver, Jennie Thlunaut (pronounced Kla-naut) and her naming ceremony and potlatch with a five page narrative and 30 color photographs taken at the event. Other photos: Color photos of "[Ceremony] hosted by Austin Hammond" at Peace Rock, also called "Deer Rock" or "Guwakaan Teyee" August 17, 1983; Color photos of Jennie Thlunaut at Haines Museum; Black and White photos of the ANAC cache; Black and white photos at King Island. Named on verso of photos: Jennie Thlunaut, Klukwan Haines: Dolly (Abbott) Phillips (married to Fred Phillips, daughter of Tlingit elder Lilly Nigh), Juneau; Ida Kadashan, Hoonah; George Dalton; Charlie Jimmy; Daisy Phillips; Emma Marks; Horace Marks; Bear blanket, Eagle blanket; Killer whale button blanket; Agnes Bellinger; Supreme Court Judge Robert Boochives. Note: KTOO recording of the Peace Rock ceremony event according to verso of photo.

162 postcards : col.48 slides : b&w, col.644 photoprints : b&w.

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Montgomery, Ethel M., 1896-1989.

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Ethel M. (Clayton) Montgomery, collector and promoter of Native arts and crafts, docent, and well-known Juneau hostess, was born on March 12, 1896 in northeastern Nebraska, Montgomery graduated from Wayne State Normal. She taught elementary school in Nebraska and married Ivil J. Montgomery in 1917. The Montgomerys had three children -- Jean, Chloe, and Neil C. After they arrived in Juneau, Alaska in 1949, Ethel Montgomery actively promoted the sale of products, handmade by Native artisans, throu...

Thlunaut, Jennie, 1892-1986

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Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative Association, Inc.

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