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Inua : spirit world of the Bering Sea Eskimo
Title:
Inua : spirit world of the Bering Sea Eskimo
JLCTITLE245:
William W. Fitzhugh and Susan A. Kaplan with contributions by Henry B. Collins [and others].
Personal Author:
Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of Natural History by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.
Physical Description:
295 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9780874744293

9780874744309
General Note:
Prepared in conjunction with an exhibit of the Edward William Nelson Bering Sea Eskimo ethnology collection of the National Museum of Natural History.
Abstract:
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.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-293).
Personal Subject:
Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934-Ethnological collections-Exhibitions.
Corporate Subject:
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) -- Catalogs.
Subject Term:
Eskimos -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.
Genre:
Government publications
Added Author:
Kaplan, Susan A., 1951-

Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987.
Added Corporate Author:
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
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.
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