Totem lore and The land of the totem : Including Totem lore, 7th ed. and Through the ten thousand islands of Alaska, 3d ed. Cover Image

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Totem lore and The land of the totem : Including Totem lore, 7th ed. and Through the ten thousand islands of Alaska, 3d ed.

Corser, H. P. (Harry Prosper), 1864-1936 (Author).

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Physical Description: 102 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Publisher: Juneau, Alaska : Nugget Shop, 1923

Content descriptions

General Note:

Cover title: Totem lore of the Alaska Indians and the land of the totem.

Includes Totem lore, 7th ed., and through the ten thousand islands of Alaska, 3rd ed.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Lecture I. -- Ketchikan totems -- Kasaan -- Lecture II.-Wrangell -- The last of the fire builders -- Lecture II. Continued-wrangell -- Wrangell totems -- The legend of the raven -- Camp fire stories of the Thlinget Indians -- Ruins of an old Indian house -- Intellectual life of the Thinglet Indians -- Lecture III.-Wrangell narrows, Petersburg and Taku -- An Alaskan pioneer, and an incident on the Taku River -- Lecture IV. -- Lecture V.-Skagway, the white pass and a salmon cannery -- The Chilkat blanket -- The Thlinget basket -- Lecture VI.-Sitka and Alaska history -- Sitka totems -- The potlatch dance -- The Seattle totem -- The alert bay Indians -- The Sitka-Wrangell fued -- Appendix.