Feeding the ancestors
Subtitle: Tlingit carved horn spoons
By: Anne-Marie Victor-Howe ; foreword by Rosita Worl ; photographs by Hillel S. Burger.
Contributors: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Series: Peabody Museum collections series
Publisher: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780873654036
Subjects: Tlingit Indians -- Implements.; Tlingit Indians -- Implements -- Pictorial works.; Tlingit Indians -- Social life and customs.; Tlingit Indians -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.; Tlingit Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.; Tlingit Indians -- Rites and ceremonies -- Pictorial works.; Spoons -- Social aspects -- Alaska.; Spoons -- Social aspects -- Alaska -- Pictorial works.; Alaska -- Social life and customs.; Alaska -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tlingit carved horn spoons; title: The collectors; title: Spoons in Tlingit culture; title: Spoons in ceremonial use; title: Spoons and shamans; title: Spoons and their stories; title: Spoons since the nineteenth century.