"And he was beautiful"
Subtitle: contemporary Athapaskan material culture in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History
By: William E. Simeone, James W. VanStone.
Contributors: VanStone, James W.
Series: Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 10; Publication -- 1371; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1371
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Field Museum of Natural History -- Catalogs.; Athapascan Indians -- Material culture -- Catalogs.; Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Material culture -- Catalogs.
Description: 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 ideological and technological roots in the past.