Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921. — 805 p. — (Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1913-1914. In Two Parts - Part 1). The material contained in the following pages was collected partly in connection with the work of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, partly after the close of the expedition,...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921. — 695 p. — (Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1913-1914. In Two Parts - Part 2). The material contained in the following pages was collected partly in connection with the work of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, partly after the close of the expedition,...
Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1909. — 288 p. — (The Jesup North Pacific Expedition; Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. V, Part II). "My studies of the Kwakiutl Indians, part of the results of which I present in the following pages, remain a fragment... Owing to the limitation of the size of the present series, it is at present impossible to publish more than a part...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1897. — 542 p. (From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895, pages 311-737, with fifty-one plates). "The following paper describes and illustrates the collections of the U.S. National Museum referring to the social organization and secret societies of the Indians of the coast of British Columbia. It is based on studies made by...
Montreal: Dawson Brothers, Publishers, 1888. — 37 p. From The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Volume V, section II, 1887. Notes and observations on the Kwakiool people of the Northern part of Vancouver Island and adjacent coasts, made during the summer of 1885, with a vocabulary of about seven hundred words.
University of Washington Press, 1979. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0-295-95674-7. Nurtured by a benevolent land and guided by a sophisticated mythology, the Kwakiutl Indians of the British Columbia coast developed an art that is characterized by variety, skill, and power. Even after white culture began to interfere with the Indians' traditional living patterns, their art, firmly rooted in...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. — 111 p. — (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology). — ISBN: 0-03-079070-0. "We begin this book with a word of explanation. Part One is written in the ethnographic present even though we lived in the Kwakiutl village on Gilford Island from September 1962 through August 1963, and again during June and July 1964. We have not been back since then,...
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969. — 310 p. The story of James Sewid, a twentieth-century Kwakiutl Indian chieftain, brings to life the experience of one man caught in conflict as the traditional Kwakiutl culture gave way to the demands of an expanding Western society in British Columbia. Born in 1910 into a rapidly disintegrating Indian culture, Sewid as a...
Chelsea House Publishers, 1992. — 120 p. — (Indians of North America). — ISBN: 1-55546-711-3. The Kwakiutl have thrived for thousands of years in the rich and varied lands of Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Able to catch, preserve, and store enough fish in the summer to feed them year-round, they traditionally devoted the winter to...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. — 132 p. — (Case Studies in Education and Culture). This case study is about a tiny Indian village along the inland waterway of the British Columbia coast. In a sense there are really two studies here, one of village life and one of the village school. While some of the principal actors — the village children of school age — are the same, the...
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