Crossroads of continents : the material culture of Siberia and Alaska. Report of a Yale-Smithsonian seminar held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., March 2-4, 1989 / edited by Kirk R. Johnson, Leo J. Hickey and Cynthia Adams Hoover.

By: Johnson, Kirk R
Contributor(s): Hickey, Leo J | Hoover, Cynthia Adams | Yale-Smithsonian Seminar on Material Culture
Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Yale-Smithsonian Seminar on Material Culture, 1991.Description: [viii], 55p. : ill., maps ; 28cm.
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Bibl.: p.53-55. - Contents: Pleistocene history of Beringia / R.S. Hoffmann; The physical and biotic setting of trans-Beringian cultures / L.J. Hickey; The technology and cultural adaptation of North Pacific whaling / W.W. Fitzhugh for Aron Crowell; Symbol and function in north Pacific clothing / V. Chaussonnet; The theory of clothing / G. McCracken; Sylistic parallels in North Pacific art / V. Wyatt; Old Bering Sea art / W.W. Fitzhugh; Jade / Brian J. Skinner; Obsidian / M. James Blackman; Alaskan-Siberian trade patterns from first western contact to the present / J. Bockstoce; Collecting and the development of anthropology / W.C. Sturtevant; Collecting in context / H.C. Conklin; Belief systems / W.W. Fitzhugh; Concluding remarks / H.W. Lamar.

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