Inua spirit world of the Bering Sea Eskimo /
Book to accompany an exhibition of Bering Sea Eskimo art collected by Edward William Nelson and now housed in the Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Places their life in a regional and chronological framework.
| Main Author: | Fitzhugh, William W., 1943- |
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| Other Authors: | Kaplan, Susan A., 1951-, Collins, Henry B. 1899-1987., National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :
Published for the National Museum of Natural History by the Smithsonian Institution Press,
[1982]
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| Physical Description: |
295 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 29 cm. Also issued online. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Richard S. Fiske
- Introduction: the way they lived long ago / Tom Imgalrea
- The land: The man who buys good-for-nothing things / Henry B. Collins ; Raven's works / Thomas Ager
- Among the animals: Hunting the sea mammals ; Food from the waters ; Life on the tundra
- Around the lamp: Life in the village
- With the spirits: Life in the Qasgiq
- Distant lands, other times: Distant lands ; Other times
- Art in transformation: Reflections in ivory / Dorothy Jean Ray ; Roots in the past / Saradell Art Frederick.