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Emerging from the mist : studies in Northwest Coast culture history / edited by R. G. Matson, Gary Coupland, and Quentin Mackie.

Contributor(s): Matson, R. G. (Richard Ghia), 1944- | Coupland, Gary | Mackie, Quentin
Language: English Publisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2003.Description: xviii, 380p. : ill., diagrs., drawings, maps, photos., tables ; 24cm.ISBN: 0774809817 (hbk)
Contents:
Introduction : the Northwest Coast in perspective / R. G. Matson; A hunter-gatherer paramount chiefdom : Tsimshian developments through the contact period / Andrew R. C. Martindale; Northwest Coast wet-site artifacts : a key to understanding resource procurement, storage, management, and exchange / dale Dale R. Croes; The Coast Salish house : lessons from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia / R. G. Matson; Nuu-chah-nulth houses : structural remains and cultural depression on southwest Vancouver Island / Alexander P. Mackie and Laurie Williamson; Preliminary analysis of socioeconomic organization at the McNichol Creek site, British Columbia / Gary Coupland, Roger H. Colten, and Rebecca Case; Dimensions of regional interaction in the prehistoric Gulf of Georgia / Colin Grier; The cultural taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth whale bone assemblages / Gregory G. Monks; The thin edge : evidence for precontact use and working of metal on the Northwest Coast / Steven Acheson; A stitch in time : recovering the antiquity of a Coast Salish basket type / Kathryn Bernick; Reviewing the Wakashan migration hypothesis / Alan D. McMillan; Location-allocation modelling of shell midden distribution on the west coast of Vancouver Island / Quentin Mackie; The Northwest Coast as a study area : natural, prehistoric, and ethnographic issues / Leland Donald; Epilogue / Leland Donald.
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Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KUB [MAT-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M42013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the Northwest Coast in perspective / R. G. Matson; A hunter-gatherer paramount chiefdom : Tsimshian developments through the contact period / Andrew R. C. Martindale; Northwest Coast wet-site artifacts : a key to understanding resource procurement, storage, management, and exchange / dale Dale R. Croes; The Coast Salish house : lessons from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia / R. G. Matson; Nuu-chah-nulth houses : structural remains and cultural depression on southwest Vancouver Island / Alexander P. Mackie and Laurie Williamson; Preliminary analysis of socioeconomic organization at the McNichol Creek site, British Columbia / Gary Coupland, Roger H. Colten, and Rebecca Case; Dimensions of regional interaction in the prehistoric Gulf of Georgia / Colin Grier; The cultural taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth whale bone assemblages / Gregory G. Monks; The thin edge : evidence for precontact use and working of metal on the Northwest Coast / Steven Acheson; A stitch in time : recovering the antiquity of a Coast Salish basket type / Kathryn Bernick; Reviewing the Wakashan migration hypothesis / Alan D. McMillan; Location-allocation modelling of shell midden distribution on the west coast of Vancouver Island / Quentin Mackie; The Northwest Coast as a study area : natural, prehistoric, and ethnographic issues / Leland Donald; Epilogue / Leland Donald.

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