Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Miller, Polly

Lost heritage of Alaska the adventure and art of the Alaskan coastal Indians Polly Miller; Illustrated by Leon Gordon Miller - New York Bonanza Books 1967 - 289 p.

Introduction / Ernest Gruening --
Alaska visited: the high art of Alaska's coastal Indians --
Vitus Bering discovers Alaska --
Comes the great Captain Cook --
Merchant navigators and the fur fever --
Captain Robert Gray and the Yankee traders --
Baranov-Russian rule in America --
America's neglected bargain --
From potlatch to politics --
Modern alchemy-artifacts into art --
Alaska revisited: the living memory of a lost artistic heritage.

Describes the arts and history of the Tlingit and Haida Indians, from accounts by early explorers and traders.

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Tlingit Indians
Haida Indians
History--Alaska

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