About this image...

Image Title: The First Lesson, 1898

Creator: Call, Samuel J., photographer

Date: 1898 Nov. 18.

Summary: Photograph shows a Native American child and man sitting on the deck of a ship, possibly the revenue cutter Bear during a relief voyage to rescue whalers off the Alaska coast in 1897. The man is showing the child how to smoke a pipe.

Subjects: Indians of North America--Children--Alaska--1890-1900
Indians of North America--Men--Alaska--1890-1900
Pipes (Smoking)--1890-1900

Original Media: Photograph

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