Laura bliss spanns documentary on the last eyak speaker, maggie smith jones. Prehistory of northern north america as seen from the yukon. The eyak were distinctive from their neighbors the eskimo and the tlingit, with a different language and culture, and only a few dozen survived when these two distinguished ethnologists lived with them in the 1930s. Freddy also assembled over many years the notes and manuscripts of lt. University of alaska center for northern educational research. Virtual archeology in yamal and circumpolar theory. She was named after her fathers sister and was, as she puts it, the apple of his eyemcclennan, 37. Society for american archaeology, 1947 ocolc631915804. Intellectual inspiration, arctic anthropology deepdyve. She began her anthropological studies in 1927 at columbia university, went to do research in france, england and denmark, then started fieldwork in greenland. Series memoirs of the society for american archaeology no. Prehistory of northern north america as seen from the yukan memoirs of the society for american archaeology.
The 154page carbon copy dates from february 8th 1954 to april 18th of the same year, when the two female anthropologists were in alaska doing field work on the yakutat tlingit indians near juneau. An ethnography of an iraqi village elizabeth warnock fernea. Idaho unbound intriguing account of gem state culture. Selected fieldwork 2003 site supervisor, amaknak bridge site, unalaska, ak. Ethnographies useful for book reports raymond hames. The prehistory of northern north america as seen from the. Chard, is an international journal devoted to the study of old and new world northern cultures and peoples. An analysis of early paleoeskimo harpoon heads from qeqertasussuk, west greenland. Emmons 18521945, who had lived and worked with the tlingit in the late 1800s. Rich and handsome, darling of the ton, the hope of ambitious mothers a. She began her anthropological studies in 1927 at columbia university, went to do research in france, england and denmark, then started fieldwork in. The seventeen papers on northern athapaskan research in ethnology, linguistics, and archaeology published in these two volumes were presented at the national museum of man northern athapaskan conference in march 1971. Koniags were the people inhabiting kodiak island at the time of european contact.
Sealaska heritage sues neiman marcus alleging unlawful use. National museum of natural history, smithsonian institution, 1995. Books and teaching guides smithsonian learning lab. A personal initiation into anthropology, published in 1977. These personal events illustrate her intellectual inspiration in my life and provide insight into the much larger influence of her scholarly work on native peoples of alaska. Archaeology, ethnology, physical anthropology, and related disciplines are represented, with emphasis on studies of specific cultures of the arctic, subarctic, and contiguous regions of the world.
The papers are prefaced by a short introduction that outlines the rationale and accomplishments of the conference. In addition, the collection contains materials related to her work in the st. Prehistory of northern north america as seen from the. She was the first child of two distinguished philosophers, both of whom taught at bryn mawr college. I remember her saying that she could not believe she had ever had the nerve to give the book such a title, that it was a terrible book full of errors and she hoped no one even looked at it anymore, add. Indian stories from the tanana, koyukuk, and yukon rivers, by eric alden smith robert c.
She grew up in bryn mawr, where her parents taught philosophy. Project muse arctic anthropologyvolume 43, number 2, 2006. In 1907, they came to bryn mawr college, where both were to teach philosophy. The ocean bay tradition was first identified with a site near the presentday village of old harbor on the south end of kodiak island. Among her bestknown books are the archaeology of cook inlet 1934, the prehistory of northern north america as seen from the yukon 1947. The grand trunk pacific railway and northern british columbia, by jonathan swainger.
Lawrence river valley in ontario in 1947 and catherine mcclellans field journal for her research in aishihik, yukon. Eyak indians of copper river alaska rare 1938 signed. Joint maps of the international boundary between the united states and canada. Search millions of objects in the collections including photographs, artworks, artifacts, scientific specimens, manuscripts, sound records, and transcripts.
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