The Tlingit Indians


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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










The American Indian


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Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 13


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Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 13: Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians The Menomini 1 or Wild Rice People, are a small tribe of Algonkin-speak ing Indians who dwell on their reservation in Shawano and Oconto Counties, Wisconsin, not far from their original habitat on Green Bay. In number, they can now muster about fifteen hundred souls, of whom perhaps one third still retain their former religion and pagan practices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.