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Title

Inua : spirit world of the Bering Sea Eskimo / William W. Fitzhugh and Susan A. Kaplan with contributions by Henry B. Collins ... [et al.].

Author

Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of Natural History by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.

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Additional Authors

• Kaplan, Susan A., 1951-
• Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Description

295 p. : ill., maps, port.; 29 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934 > Ethnological collections > Exhibitions
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) > Catalogs
• Eskimos > Alaska > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Illustrated works.

Note

• Prepared in conjunction with an exhibit of the Edward William Nelson Bering Sea Eskimo ethnology collection of the National Museum of Natural History.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 288-293.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 087474430X (hard)
• 0874744296 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^82005542^

OCLC

8387734

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library