Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch

New York and Seattle: American Museum of Natural History; University of Washington Press, 1991. 300 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 x 27 cm. Published to accompany the exhibition held at the American Museum of Natural History, October 1991 to February 1992; Royal British Columbia Museum, June to November 1992; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, January to August, 1993; National Museum of Natural History, October 1993 to March 1994; Seattle Art Museum, May to September 1994. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Masks, head-dresses, blankets, coppers, feast dishes, and other ceremonial objects by the Kwakiutl Indians of northern Vancouver Island and environs. CONTENTS: The spelling of Kwak?wala, by Wayne Suttles; Chiefly feasts: the creation of an exhibition, by Aldona Jonaitis; Streams of property, armor of wealth: the traditional Kwakiutl potlatch, by Douglas Cole; George Hunt, collector of Indian specimens, by Ira Jacknis; The contemporary potlatch, by Gloria Cranmer Webster; Postscript: the treasures of Siwidi, by Judith Ostrowitz and Aldona Jonaitis.. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.