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• Title:Chiefly feasts : the enduring Kwakiutl potlatch / edited by Aldona Jonaitis ; with essays by Douglas Cole [and others] ; contributions by Stacy Alyn Marcus, Judith Ostrowitz ; and special editorial help by Peter L. Macnair ; color photographs by Lynton Gardiner.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Jonaitis, Aldona, 1948-
  Cole, Douglas, 1938-1997.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  American Museum of Natural History.
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©1991.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY reserve collection Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BE J66 C45 1991EX
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--World view--British Columbia
  Kwakwaka'wakw--Ceremonies
  Indigenous Peoples--Potlatch--British Columbia
  Indigenous Peoples--Art--Northwest Coast
  
• Genre/Form:Exhibitions
  
• Description:300 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 x 27 cm.
  
• Notes:Co-published by American Museum of Natural History.
  Includes index.
  Includes bibliographical references: pages 289-295.
  
• ISBN:0888947437 :
  
• Contents:Contents: The spelling of Kwakwala / Wayne Suttles
  Chiefly feasts: the creation of an exhibition / Aldona Jonaitis
  Streams of property, armor of wealth: the traditional Kwakiutl potlatch / Wayne Suttles
  The history of the Kwakiutl Potlatch / Douglas Cole
  George Hunt, collector of Indian specimens / Ira Jacknis
  The contempory potlatch / Gloria Cranmer Webster
  Postscript: the treasures of Siwidis / Judith Ostrowitz.