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About Item: IV.- The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. By James Teit. Edited by Franz Boas. Part of the Memoirs of the Museum of Natural History Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. January 1902This volume contains pages 163-391. Map, Plates XIV-XIXContents: Editor's Note; Introduction, Historical and Geological; Manufactures; House and Household; Clothing and Ornaments; Subsistence; Travel and Transportation; Warfare; Games and Pastimes; Sign Language; Social Organizations and Festivals; Birth, Childhood, Puberty, Marriage and Death; Religion; Medicine, Charms and Current Beliefs; Art; Conclusion. Errata slip laid in.Filled with drawings by Franz Boas, this volume is one of more than 30 publications resulting from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition , a major anthropological expedition to Siberia, Alaska, and the northwest coast of Canada. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate the relationships between the peoples at each side of the Bering Strait. The expedition was sponsored by… Read More
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