ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Erna Gunther was an anthropologist who taught at the University of Washington.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Illustration's

Preface

Introduction

1. The Russians Seek the "Great Land" and Thereby Arouse the Spaniards to Reconsider the Northern Boundary of "Alta California"

2. Captain Cook's Third Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Arrives at Nootka Sound

3. The Challenge of the Coast South of Nootka: The Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Columbia River

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

5. The Haida, the Shrewdest of Traders, Who Set the Style for Demands for Trade Goods

6. The Aggressive Tlingit, Who Discouraged Vancouver's Surveying and Stood off the Russians for Half a Decade

7. The Northernmost Reaches, with the Chugach of Prince William Sound, the Athapascans of Cook Inlet, and the Aleut and Russians at Unalaska

Appendix 1. Eighteenth-Century Objects in European Museums

Appendix 2. Technological Processes of the Eighteenth Century

Bibliography

Index

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