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Record #94651:
The skin boats of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska / Stephen R. Braund.
Title: | The skin boats of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska / Stephen R. Braund. |
Author(s): | Braund, Stephen R. |
Date: | 1988. |
Publisher: | Seattle: University of Washington Press |
Abstract: | Traces evolution of native boat use from pre-contact skin boat to wooden Yankee whale boat to skin boat now in use. Contemporary umiak shown to be not an aboriginal artifact but product of dynamic change. |
Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo. 629.125.134 -- Kayaks and umiaks. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. (*495) -- US islands in North Pacific. (*495.6) -- St. Lawrence Island. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*495.6) : 629.125.134 |
ISBN: | 0295966742 |
SPRI record no.: | 94651 |
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