Anne-Marie Victor-Howe introduces the collectors and describes the means by which these and other ethnographic objects were acquired. In the process, she paints a vivid picture of the "Last Frontier" just before and shortly after the United States purchased Alaska. A specialist in the ethnography of the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast, Victor-Howe provides a fascinating glimpse into these aboriginal subsistence cultures as she explains the manufacture and function of traditional spoons. Her accounts of the clan stories associated with specific carvings and of the traditional shamanic uses of spoons are the result of extensive consultation with Tlingit elders, scholars, and carvers.
"Feeding the Ancestors" is the first scholarly study of traditional feast spoons and a valuable contribution to our knowledge of Pacific Northwest Coast peoples and their art.
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Anne-Marie Victor-Howe introduces the collectors and describes the means by which these and other ethnographic objects were acquired. In the process, she paints a vivid picture of the "Last Frontier" just before and shortly after the United States purchased Alaska. A specialist in the ethnography of the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast, Victor-Howe provides a fascinating glimpse into these aboriginal subsistence cultures as she explains the manufacture and function of traditional spoons. Her accounts of the clan stories associated with specific carvings and of the traditional shamanic uses of spoons are the result of extensive consultation with Tlingit elders, scholars, and carvers.
"Feeding the Ancestors" is the first scholarly study of traditional feast spoons and a valuable contribution to our knowledge of Pacific Northwest Coast peoples and their art.
Imprint | Peabody Museum Of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Peabody Museum Collections Series |
Release date | April 2007 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | April 2007 |
Authors | Anne-marie Victor-howe |
Foreword by | Rosita Worl |
Photographers | Hillel S. Burger |
Dimensions | 218 x 205 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 128 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-87365-403-6 |
Barcode | 9780873654036 |
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LSN | 0-87365-403-X |