This book offers a many-faceted examination of the cultures of the Tlingit, the Haida, the Tsimshian, the Bella Coola, the Kwakiutl, the Nootka, and the Salish--Indian peoples of the coast running from the Canadian border area of Juan de Fuca Strait to Yakutat Bay in southeastern Alaska. Professor McFeat has brought together key writings by seventeen authorities including Franz Boas, Helen Codere, Viola E. Garfield, and Wayne Suttles. General readers as well as scholars have an opportunity to examine a wide range of literature and thereby to increase their understanding of one of the most interesting groups among the Indian peoples of North America.

Indians of North America, Indians of North America Northwest Coast of North America, Indiens États-Unis Pacifique, Côte du (Amérique du Nord), North America Northwest Coast of North America

The Indian tribes of the North Pacific Coast / Franz Boas Primary forms of material culture : living and eating / John R. Jewitt Boatmanship / Gilbert Malcolm Sproat Nootka whaling / Philip Drucker The social organization of the West Coast tribes / Edward Sapir Social organization of the Haida / John R. Swanton The ancestral family of the Bella Coola / T.F. McIlwraith The potlatch / Franz Boas The nature of the potlatch / H.G. Barnett Fighting with property / Helen Codere Some variations on the potlatch / Philip Drucker Black market prerogatives among the Northern Kwakiutl / Ronald L. Olson Git-la'n chief's potlatch / Viola Garfield Daniel Cranmer's potlatch / Helen Codere Lagius gives me a copper / Clellan S. Ford Rank, wealth, and kinship in Northwest Coast society / Philip Drucker Kwakiutl society : rank without class / Helen Codere Boas and the neglect of commoners; Critique / Verne F. Ray ; Comment / Robert H. Lowie ; Rejoinder / Verne F. Ray Private knowledge, morality, and social classes among the Coast Salish / Wayne Suttles The winter ceremonial / Franz Boas Charlie Nowell recalls the winter ceremonies / Clellan S. Ford Crime and punishment in Tlingit society / Kalervo Oberg The patterns of culture / Philip Drucker The amiable side of Kwakiutl life : the potlatch and the play potlatch / Helen Codere The amiable side of [Ruth Benedict's] Patterns of culture / Victor Barnouw

"Copyright © by McClelland and Stewart Limited ... First University of Washington Press edition, 1967."--Verso of title page

"Copyright © by McClelland and Stewart Limited ... First University of Washington Press edition, 1967."--Verso of title page