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Title:
Living our cultures, sharing our heritage : the first peoples of Alaska
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Aron L. Crowell [and others].
Publication Information:
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, ©2010.
Physical Description:
312 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 32 cm
ISBN:
9781588342706

9781588342782
General Note:
"In association with the Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History and the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center."

"Companion volume to the exhibition of the same name opening at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, May 2010"--Title page verso.
Abstract:
Embraces Alaska Native art and design masterworks and offers insight from elders, artists, and scholars with acknowledgment of the spiritual and social meaning of traditional objects and their importance to Alaskans' lives today.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Corporate Subject:
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center -- Exhibitions.
Subject Term:
Alaska Native art -- Exhibitions.

Art and design -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Alaska Natives -- Material culture -- Exhibitions.

Alaska Natives -- Social life and customs -- Exhibitions.

Alaska Natives -- Alaska -- Intellectual life -- Exhibitions.

Art and society -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Community life -- Alaska -- Exhibitions.

Art indien d'Amérique -- Alaska -- Expositions.

Art inuit -- Alaska -- Expositions.

Art et design -- Alaska -- Expositions.

Autochtones de l'Alaska -- Culture matérielle.

Autochtones de l'Alaska -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Expositions.

Autochtones de l'Alaska -- Vie intellectuelle.

Art et société -- Alaska -- Expositions.

Communauté -- Alaska -- Expositions.

Alaska Native art. (OCoLC)fst01748646

Art and design. (OCoLC)fst01741278

Art and society. (OCoLC)fst00815432

Community life. (OCoLC)fst00871028
Geographic Term:
Alaska. (OCoLC)fst01204480
Genre:
Nonfiction.

Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
Added Author:
Crowell, Aron, 1952-
Added Corporate Author:
Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History)
Contents:
Native perspectives on Alaska's history / Paul C. Ongtooguk and Claudia S. Dybdahl -- The first peoples of Alaska : a path to self-determination / Rosita Worl -- Iñupiaq / Beverly Faye Hugo. First seal hunt / Paul Asicksik Jr. -- St. Lawrence Island Yupik / Paapi Merlin Koonooka. Sleeping memories / Jonella Larson White -- Yup'ik / Alice Aluskak Rearden. Ellam Yua -- person of the universe / Marie Meade -- Unangax̂ / Alice Petrivelli. Return of the dance / Crystal Dushkin -- Sugpiaq / Gordon L. Pullar. Sugpiaq masks / Sven Haakanson Jr. -- Athabascan / Eliza Jones. Dena'ina Anchorage / Aaron Leggett -- Tlingit / Rosita Worl. Clan knowledge / Ricardo Worl -- Haida / Jeane Breinig. Haida history and art / Delores Churchill -- Tsimshian / David Boxley. Herring eggs / Karla Booth -- Collaborative conservation of Alaska Native objects at the Smithsonian / Landis Smith, Michele Austin-Dennehy, and Kelly McHugh -- Alaska Native collections at the Smithsonian / Aron C. Crowell, Landis Smith, and Kelly McHugh.
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