Holmberg's ethnographic sketches
Title:
Holmberg's ethnographic sketches
JLCTITLE245:
by Heinrich Johan Holmberg ; edited by Marvin W. Falk ; translated by Fritz Jaensch.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Ethnographische skizzen über die völker des russischen Amerika. English
Publication Information:
Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 1985.
Physical Description:
x, 133 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780912006178
General Note:
Translation of: Ethnographische skizzen über die völker des russischen Amerika.
Abstract:
An annotated translation of materials on the history and culture of the Tlingit Indians written by Russian orothodox missionaries at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Major part is English translation of monograph by Anatolii Kamenskii title "In the land of the shamans, Indians of Alaska, their social life and religion" published in 1906.
Part one: Ethnographic sketches of the peoples of Russian America. Contains papers and selections from papers by Heinrich Johan Holmberg on native peoples. Part two: The shipwreck of the Saint Nikolai as related by Holmberg from the account by Timofei Tarakanov.
Local Note:
UAS Egan Library Forestry Sciences Collection (1850-2004).
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Variant Title:
Ethnographic sketches