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Describes the daily lives, culture, beliefs, social structure, and environment of some of the Native American peoples who lived on the Northwest coast of North America before the coming of Europeans.

A history of totem poles and a discussion of the tribes that used them. Includes some stories told on these tall wood columns.

Comprehensive account of the petroglyphs of the northwest coastal regions, illustrated by reproduction of rubbings.

Here is the most complete text and general collection of illustrations of Northwest Coast Indian art written in the last twenty years. The art objects shown and described in this book are to the anthropologist and the artist what original documents are to the historian. Each individual work of art shows in concrete form the speculations about life and nature which took root among these primitive peoples. As such they form part of the vast mosaic of...

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"Art of the Northwest Coast is a comprehensive survey of the Native arts of the Pacific Northwest Coast, spanning the region from Puget Sound to Alaska, and proceeding from prehistoric times to the present. Incorporating the region's social history with the observations of anthropologists, historians of art, and Native peoples, this rich, vibrant book reveals how a complex web of factors informed these groups' varied responses to the changes and challenges...

Of Boas' field trips -- Boas' methodology -- Manuscript materials -- Earlier publication of individual sections of the Sagen -- Publication of the Sagen -- An evaluation of the Sagen -- Boas' orthography -- History of this translation -- Boas' preface to the original 1895 edition -- I: Shuswap -- II: Ntlakyapamuq (Thompson) -- 3: Lower Fraser River -- 4: Cowichan -- 5: Nanaimo -- 6: Squamish -- 7: Lukungun -- 8: Comox -- 9: Klahoose -- 10: Sliammon...

"Story story. For the Clackamas Chinook Indians, these words signaled the end of a myth recital. Melville Jacobs spent a lifetime recording such traditional stories and studying the life ways of those who told them. An anthropologist and folklorist, Jacobs worked to preserve and inerpret the fast-disappearing languages and traditions of the Indian people of Oregon and Washington. This volume presents an introduction to Jacobs's seminal research and...

In this study of the Indians who lived from Yakutat Bay in Alaska to northern California, profuse illustrations and vivid narrative reconstruct a unique native culture of aboriginal America.