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Ketchikan : Alaska's totemland / by Mary G. Balcom.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8059
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balcom, Mary G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ketchikan (Alaska)--History.
- Ketchikan (Alaska).
- Tlingit Indians.
- Tsimshian Indians.
- Totems.
- Alaska--Ketchikan.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 139 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Adams Press, 1974
- Contents:
- Chapter one. The Tlingit
- Family life
- Customs, occupations and culture
- The potlatch and feast
- Flagellation and shamanism
- Early missionaries
- Chapter two. The Tsimshians
- William Duncan
- Fort Simpson
- Description of the tribes
- Progress
- Metlakatla, British Columbia
- Business ventures
- A visit and visitors
- Metlakatla, Alaska
- Chapter three. The White men
- Settlers from Wrangell
- Incorporation of Ketchikan
- Early days of Ketchikan
- Development of mines
- Alaska Packers' association
- Early churches, schools and hospitals
- Early business enterprises
- Mining slump
- The fisheries era
- The New England Fish company
- Early canneries and the sawmill
- Politics
- Ketchikan cold storage
- Early clubs and organizations
- Canned salmon capital
- Ketchikan Pulp Company
- All-America city
- Annual king salmon derbies
- Chapter four. Alaska's totemland
- Chief Johnson Pole
- Saxman, Alaska
- Saxman totem pole
- The blackfish pole
- Tired Wolf House Post
- Beaver House Post
- Pointing figure
- The frog tree
- President Lincoln
- The loon tree
- Secretary of state cole
- Raven pole
- The owl memorial
- Eagle and beaver
- Dogfish pole
- Giant rock oyster pole
- Klawock blackfish fin
- Grizzly bear monument
- Kats and his bear wife
- Beaver house post
- Tired wolf house post
- Raven and frog
- Sun and raven
- Totems in city park
- Calm woman pole
- Kats and bear wife pole
- Wayward husband pole
- Sea lion house pole
- Haida memorial
- Mud Bight Community House
- Mud Bight totems
- Tongass historical society
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- "Third Edition--1974"--title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8059: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Author's ink autograph on leaf 1 recto.
- OCLC:
- 1205279
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