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Lost heritage of Alaska

by Miller, Polly
Additional authors: Ill. -- Miller, Leon Gordon
Published by : Bonanza Books (New York) Physical details: 289 p. Year: 1967
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900 - 999 970.498 Mil (Browse shelf) Available 63340

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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