Haida: Their Art and Culture

by Leslie Drew

Book Overview

Experts at building and navigating sea-going canoes, the Haida ranged far from their Island stronghold, trading with, and sometimes raiding, the villages of their nearest neighbours -- the Kwakiutl to the south, the Tsimshian across the often-stormy waters of Hecate Straight, and the Tlingit to the north in what is now part of Alaska. There are also Haida in Alaska, referred to as Kaigani Haida, descendants of group who migrated from the Queen Charlotte...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888391323
• ISBN13: 9780888391322
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Big Country Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.8"

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Haida: Their art and culture

When you first visit the great land known as Alaska, everything is strange to you and when you leave you have a force drawing you back. This force is not the land or the wildlife it,s the people.Read this book and find out what makes these people tick.