Title:
Tlingit Indians of Alaska
JLCTITLE245:
by Anatolii Kamenskii ; translated with an introduction and supplementary material by Sergei Kan.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, 1985.
Physical Description:
xvii, 166 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780912006161
9780912006185
General Note:
Title on t.p. verso: Indiane Aliaski.
Abstract:
An annotated translation of materials containing information on the history and culture of the Tlingit Indians of southeastern Alaska written by Russian Orthodox missionaries at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Local Note:
UAS Egan Library Forestry Sciences Collection (1850-2004).
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-159) and index.
Subject Term:
Added Author:
Added Title:
Indiane Aliaski.
Contents:
I. Settlements of the Tlingit Indians -- The First Russian Encounter with them One Hundred Years Ago -- Warfare and Hunting -- Language as an Indicator of the Development of the Culture -- II. Social Life -- Tribes, Clans, Baraboras [Houses] and Families -- Clan Symbols -- Heads of Clans and Baraboras -- III. Ideas about Kinship -- Relations among Tribes and Clans -- Hostage Exchange [Amanatstvo] -- Blankets as Units of Value -- IV. Marriage and Family Life -- Divorces. Remarriage of the Widowed -- Polygamy -- Children's Upbringing during the First Year -- V. Ancient Religion of the Indians -- Traces of True Worship -- VI. Indian Deities: Dikee Aankaawu, Ganook, Yeil -- Myths about Them -- VII. Other Deities of the Tlingit Indians: Xeitl, Haayeeshaanak'u, and Myths about Them -- VIII. Beliefs in Spirits and Souls of the Dead -- IX. Beliefs in Afterlife -- Funeral Rites -- Attitudes toward the Remains of the Dead -- X. Shamanism and Its Asiatic Origin -- Ikht [Ixt'] and Nukstsaty [Nakws'aat] -- Shamanistic Rituals -- Curing of the Sick Afflicted by Witchcraft.