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Author Beynon, William, 1888-1958.

Title Potlatch at Gitsegukla : William Beynon's 1945 field notebooks / edited with an introduction by Margaret Anderson and Marjorie Halpin
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Contents Preface / Sm'ooygit Hannamauxw -- Key Events in the Gitksan Encounter with the Colonial World / James A. McDonald, Jennifer Joseph -- Note on the Orthography Used by William Beynon in the Notebooks -- Place Names in the Notebooks -- List of Names for Each Village by Clan -- Naxnox Names and Performances -- Other Gitksan Terms in the Texts -- Names of the Poles -- Types of Contributions -- Types of Events -- Types of Songs
Summary "William Beynon's notebooks are among the most significant written records of Northwest coast potlatching and are an unsurpassed resource documenting these activities among the Gitksan. This rare, first-hand, ethnographic account of a potlatch reveals the wonderful complexities of the events the took place in Gitsegukla in 1945"--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Beynon, William, 1888-1958 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
SUBJECT Beynon, William, 1888-1958. fast (OCoLC)fst01471369
Subject Potlatch -- British Columbia
Gitxsan Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Gitxsan Indians -- Social life and customs
HISTORY -- Native American.
Gitxsan Indians -- Social life and customs.
Potlatch.
Potlatch
Potlatch.
Tsimshian.
British Columbia.
Kitksan.
Genre/Form Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, Margaret
Halpin, Marjorie M., 1937-
ISBN 9780774852166
077485216X