Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America as seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century
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Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America as seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century

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Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America as seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century

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A reconstruction of the Haida and Tlingit cultures of the Pacific Northwest during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Drawing on a wide range of evidence, this volume is a carefully researched investigation into the ethnohistory of the Pacific Northwest during the period of European exploration of the region. The book supplements the archeological evidence from the area with a detailed investigation of the journals, diaries, and sketchbooks of Russian, Spanish, and English explorers and traders who reached the region, as well as artifacts that those explorers and traders obtained on their expeditions and that are now held in museums worldwide. In doing so, Gunther's research extends anthropological study of the region a century earlier, and sheds light on the understudied tribal cultures of the Haida and the Tlingit. The volume contains splendid reproductions of contemporary drawings, and appendices mapping the museum locations of artifacts and describing the processes of native technology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Illustration's
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Russians Seek the "Great Land" and Thereby Arouse the Spaniards to Reconsider the Northern Boundary of "Alta California"
  10. 2. Captain Cook's Third Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Arrives at Nootka Sound
  11. 3. The Challenge of the Coast South of Nootka: The Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Columbia River
  12. 4. The Inside Passage, Where the Spaniards in the Sutil and the Mexicana Proceed More Slowly and Vancouver Hastens to Establish the Insularity of Vancouver Island
  13. 5. The Haida, the Shrewdest of Traders, Who Set the Style for Demands for Trade Goods
  14. 6. The Aggressive Tlingit, Who Discouraged Vancouver's Surveying and Stood off the Russians for Half a Decade
  15. 7. The Northernmost Reaches, with the Chugach of Prince William Sound, the Athapascans of Cook Inlet, and the Aleut and Russia s at Unalaska
  16. Appendix 1. Eighteenth-Century Objects in European Museums
  17. Appendix 2. Technological Processes of the Eighteenth Century
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index