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Emmons, George Thornton & Laguna, Frederica de [editor].
The Tlingit Indians.
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History; Douglas & Mcintyre New York; Toronto;
Date of Publication: 1991
Stock Code: 12154
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. xl, 488, [2]. Illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams and drawings throughout. Bound in cream cloth with blind stamped totems to boards and bronze titles to spine. With the unclipped red pictorial publisher’s dust-jacket. Cloth marked and soiled, but contents tight, clean and crisp. Unclipped dust-jacket spine sunned, creased to spine-tip. A good copy in a very good dust-jacket. Posthumously published work chronicling Lieutenant George Thornton Emmon’s relationship with the indigenous Tlingit people whilst stationed in Alaska in the 1880s-1890s. With chapters on witchcraft, shamanism, and ceremonies. Edited with additions by eminent ethnologist and archaeologist Frederica de Laguna, Includes a meticulously researched biography of Emmons by Jean Low. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £60.00