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Totem Poles and the Potlatch of the Pacific Northwest

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A crest column gets decoded for rank and rights first, then three ways the coast kept a record, the columns, community testimony, and Boas and Hunt's 1897 ethnography, get set against each other. Works solo, in pairs, or as a station.

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