Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902

by Laurel Kendall, Thomas R. Miller, Stanley A. Freed, et al.

Book Overview

The Siberian Yakaghir people dubbed the camera the three-legged device that draws a person's shadow to stone. US anthropology's foremost 19th century ethnographic expedition studying the origin of the American Indians serves as a focal point for debatable interpretations of such images as cultural

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295976470
• ISBN13: 9780295976471
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 10.6"