ETHNOGRAPHY of TANAINA by OSGOOD/ALASKA INDIANS/ 1937

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ETHNOGRAPHY of TANAINA by OSGOOD/ALASKA INDIANS/ 1937 BY CORNELIUS OSGOOD/46 PICTURES & MAPS/ COMPARE at $40+ THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE TANAINA. BY CORNELIUS OSGOOD. EDITED BY EDWARD SAPIR AND LESLIE SPIER. YALE UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY, NUMBER SIXTEEN. New Haven: Published for the Department of Anthropology, Yale University Press, 1937. First Edition. Very Scarce. A nice copy of this very scarce and fascinating detailed ethnographic study of the Indians of the south coast of Alaska, based on the author's fieldwork in the region in 1932 and 1933 by a distinguished anthropologist who wrote a number of classic works on the indigenous Alaskans. This volume describes the Tanaina, "an Athapaskan-speaking people of the south coast of Alaska who refer to themselves collectively by this term and feel related through common bonds of blood, language, and culture." The purpose of this monograph is to "present descriptively the manifest culture of the Tanaina as it would have appeared just previous to historic contact, or in the third quarter of the eighteenth century." This volume is illustrated with 2 maps, 14 plates, and 30 illustrations. Cornelius Osgood is the author of several other Yale Publications that I have listed on ebay: No. 7: "The Distribution of the Northern Athapaskan Indians" (Numbers 1-7 bound as one volume), No. 14: "Contributions to the Ethnography of the Kutchin," No. 22: "Ingalik Material Culture," and "No. 25, "The Ciboney Culture of Cayo Redondo, Cuba." Published more than 70 years ago, this book is now long out of print and very scarce, often selling for more than $40. I have obtained a collection of these YUPA monographs, in beautiful condition and I will be listing them on ebay in the next few weeks. NOTE: This book comes from the personal collection of Prof. Cornelius Osgood, a distinguished ethnographer who was Curator of Anthropology at the Yale Peabody Museum from 1934 to 1973, and he was the General Editor of this Yale Anthropology series of monographs. He made scientific expeditions to northern Canada and Alaska and wrote a number of monographs on the indigenous peoples of northern North America. I am selling his fine collection of rare anthropology, Canadian and Alaskan books on ebay this month. There are no ownership markings in this book, but he did sign or stamp many of his other books. Please take a look at my other listings. According to the publisher: "The Yale University Publications in Anthropology embody the results of researches in the general field of anthropology which are directly conducted or otherwise sponsored by the Section of Anthropology of the Department of the Social Sciences in the Graduate School, the Department of Anthropology of the Peabody Museum, and the Department of Anthropology of the Institute of Human Relations. The issues, ranging in size from brief papers to extensive monographs, are numbered consecutively as independent contributions and appear at irregular intervals." From the Foreword: "During the summer months of 1931, I took the opportunity of continuing my research on the Northern Athapaskan Indians under the auspices of Yale University with the financial support of the Prudden Fund. My plan had been to make a series of descriptive studies of Athapaskan groups to serve as the basis for a general cultural analysis involving the whole of the extensive Northern Athapaskan area and adjacent regions...I decided to follow up my program by a season among the Tanaina of Cook Inlet, Alaska. I left New Haven in May, arrived at Seldovia in the middle of June and immediately found informants with whom I could work...After about a month in the Kachemak Bay settlement, other villages were each visited for one or two weeks in the following order: Iliamna, Eklutna, Tyonek, Susitna, and Kenai. I left the Tanaina territory in September with distinctly encouraging results. After working over the materials during the following winter certain gaps appeared which seemed possible to fill in on a second visit. Therefore, at the end of my ... read more

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