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	Nunivak Island Eskimo (Yuit) technology and material culture (Volume Fieldiana, Anthropology, new series, no.12) - VanStone, James W During 1939-1940 Margaret Lantis lived for a year on Nunivak Island off the coast of west-central Alaska. Although the major purpose of her research was to record social organization, religion, and folklore, she also took extensive notes on technology and material culture. Lantis has published extensively on various aspects of Nunivaarmiut social culture but a projected study of material culture was never completed... Keywords: Eskimos -- Alaska Nunivak Island Material culture; Indians of North America -- Alaska Material culture Downloads: 631
	"And he was beautiful" : contemporary Athapaskan material culture in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History (Volume Fieldiana, Anthropology, new series, no.10) - Simeone, William E The collections of Field Museum of Natural History contains 65 examples of contemporary northern Athapaskan Indian crafts made by the Han, Tanacross, and Upper Tanana Indians. These objects were collected for the museum in 1981-1982 and are described, illustrated, and placed in their historical and contemporary context by this study. The authors demonstrate that contemporary northern Athapaskan material culture, at least in interior Alaska, is vital, innovative, and modern, but with strong ideol... Keywords: Field Museum of Natural History; Athapascan Indians -- Material culture Catalogs; Indians of North America -- Alaska Material culture Catalogs Downloads: 665
	The Cherry collection of Deg Hit'an (Ingalik) material culture (Volume Fieldiana, Anthropology, new series, no.27) - VanStone, James W The collections of the Field Museum of Natural History contain 128 ethnographic objects collected among the Deg Hit'an (Ingalik) Indians at Anvik, Alaska, in 1890-1892. Marcus O. Cherry assembled the collection for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. The artifacts in this collection are described and illustrated. For comparative purposes, information is included from a previous study of Deg Hit'an material culture by Cornelius Osgood (1940) and from other relevant sources Keywords: Cherry, Marcus O; Field Museum of Natural History; Ingalik Indians -- Material culture Catalogs and collections Illinois Chicago; Indians of North America -- Alaska Material culture Catalogs and collections Illinois Chicago Downloads: 192