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Title Chiefly feasts : the enduring Kwakiutl potlatch / edited by Aldona Jonaitis ; with essays by Douglas Cole, Ira Jacknis, Aldona Jonaitis, Wayne Suttles, Gloria Cranmer Webster ; contributions by Stacy Alyn Marcus, Judith Ostrowitz ; and special editorial help by Peter L. Macnair ; color photographs by Lynton Gardiner.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : American Museum of Natural History, ©1991.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection M Schick  971.1004979 C434 1991    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 300 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 27 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Catalog of a travelling exhibition held at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, October-February 1992 and others.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-295) and index.
Contents The spelling of Kwakwala / Wayne Suttles -- Chiefly feasts : the creation of an exhibition / Aldona Jonaitis -- Streams of property, armor of wealth : the traditional Kwakiutl potlatch / Douglas Cole -- George Hunt, collector of Indian specimens / Ira Jacknis -- The contemporary potlatch / Gloria Cranmer Webster -- Postscript : The treasures of Siwidi / Judith Ostrowitz and Aldona Jonaitis.
Summary A collection of art (masks, head-dresses, blankets, coppers, feast dishes, and other Kwakiutl ceremonial objects) made by the Kwakiutl Indians of northern Vancouver Island and the nearby mainland.
Subject Kwakiutl Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Potlatch -- British Columbia.
Kwakiutl art.
Kwakiutl art. (OCoLC)fst00989521
Kwakiutl Indians -- Rites and ceremonies. (OCoLC)fst00989519
Potlatch. (OCoLC)fst01073509
British Columbia. (OCoLC)fst01205265
Added Author Jonaitis, Aldona, 1948- editor, author.
Cole, Douglas, 1938-1997, author.
Jacknis, Ira, author.
Suttles, Wayne P., 1918-2005, author.
Webster, Gloria Cranmer, author.
American Museum of Natural History.
ISBN 0295971142 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780295971148 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0295971150 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780295971155 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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