Sometime in the late 19th century, Lt. George Emmons, an officer with the U.S. Navy and a well-known ethnographic collector, is thought to have removed a series of shamanistic...

...decay was so advanced that the pole could never again be placed in a self-supporting situation. Who was Gonakadet? George Emmons explains that "The belief in the mythical being, Gonakadet, occurs along the whole coast. He lives in the sea...

...her death, is scheduled for re-release by spring 2008. De Laguna also spent years working with the notes of Lt. George Emmons (1852-1945), the famed ethnographer who studied Tlingits in the late 1800s. Emmons' 1991 "The Tlingit Indians...

...important canoe, it could it be forgotten.'' The beaver prow figure from the canoe reappeared in 1911 as part of a George Emmons collection acquired by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and was shelved in the stacks with...

...hostage. Other countries competed for the valuable pelts, too. Writing about Southeast Alaska in the late 1800s, George Emmons noted in "The Tlingit Indians" that "The sea otter, the most valuable of all fur-bearing animals, was originally...

...Russians. The book also includes Andrew Hope's list of Tlingit tribes, clans and clan houses and excerpts from George Emmons' manuscript about the tribes, based on his interviews with Natives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thornton...