The Tlingit Indians
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| Author | : George Thornton Emmons |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0295970081 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780295970080 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Tlingit Indians by : George Thornton Emmons
Book excerpt: When Emmons died in 1945, he left behind a mass of materials for a 65 line drawings, and 127 bandw photos. book on the Tlingit which he had begun as early as the 1880s, when he was stationed in Alaska with the US Navy. Ethnologist and archaeologist Frederica de Laguna has spent 30 years organizing Emmons ethnographic data, notes, drawings, sketches, and manuscripts, and has made significant additions from other sources and her own information, putting the entirety in chronological order, to present this invaluable ethnography of the Northwest Coast. Includes a biography of Emmons by Jean Low, as well as an extensive bibliography, 37 tables, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
