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Holmberg's ethnographic sketches / by Heinrich Johan Holmberg ; edited by Marvin W. Falk ; translated by Fritz Jaensch.

Summary:

An annotated translation of materials on the history and culture of the Tlingit Indians written by Russian orothodox missionaries at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Major part is English translation of monograph by Anatolii Kamenskii title "In the land of the shamans, Indians of Alaska, their social life and religion" published in 1906.
Part one: Ethnographic sketches of the peoples of Russian America. Contains papers and selections from papers by Heinrich Johan Holmberg on native peoples. Part two: The shipwreck of the Saint Nikolai as related by Holmberg from the account by Timofei Tarakanov.

Record details

  • ISBN: 091200617X (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780912006178 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: x, 133 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 1985.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Translation of: Ethnographische skizzen über die völker des russischen Amerika.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject:
Koniagmiut Eskimos.
Tlingit Indians.
Indians of North America > Alaska.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library PNW E 99 .A3 E88 H65 1985 282528 PNW Reshelving -