To document Kwakwaka’wakw dance displays in Chicago, Boas hired a commercial photographer named John Grabill. Boas likely had future print illustrations in mind when he hung a white cloth behind the dancers. Archival originals show troupe members drumming on a plank in front of the Leather and Shoe Trades building, which was adjacent to the ethnographic village where the troupe lived.
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