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.