Athapaskan Adaptations: Dene hunters and fishermen of the subarctic forests

184 Pages·1974·7.591 MB·English

by  James W. VanStone

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Athapaskan Adaptations
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Studies in
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Athapaskan Adaptations
Hunters and Fishermen of the Subarctic Forests
JAMES W. VANSTONE
FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY / CHICAGO
meSii ALDINE PUBLISHING COMPANY / Chicago
Frontispiece: Koyukon caribou drive, 1860s
(from F. Whymper, Voyages et Aventures dans
la Colombie Anglaise, L’lle Vancouver, le
Territoire d’Alaska et la California, Paris, Librairie
Hachette, 1880, p. 119).
Cover: An Indian leader from the Tanana River,
1926 (courtesy of National Anthropological
Archives, Smithsonian Institution).
Copyright © 1974 by James W. VanStone
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The Author
James W. VanStone is Curator of North American Archaeology
and Ethnology, and Chairman of the Department of Anthro¬
pology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He is
also Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Northwestern
University. Professor VanStone received his M.A. and Ph.D. at
the University of Pennsylvania and has been affiliated with the
University of Toronto and the University of Alaska. He is the
author of nine books and monographs, fifty articles, and many
book reviews in anthropological journals.