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Chapter headings resemble the breadth of the work: The Land and the People; Social Organization; Villages, Houses, Forts, and Other Works; Travel and Transportation; Fishing and Hunting; Food and its Preparation; Arts and Industries: Men's Work; Arts and Industries: Women's Work; Dress and
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Emmons retired in 1899 and took on special projects for the federal government. He was sent to Alaska in 1901 to locate border stone markers between Canada and the USA. He gave advice about Alaskan game and forests and
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Decoration; The Life Cycle; Ceremonies; War and Peace; Illness and Medicine; Shamanism; Witchcraft; Games and Gambling; and Time, Tides, and Winds.
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fishery in 1902. In 1904, he gathered information about white settlers and Alaska Natives and asked President
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in 1874. In 1881, he attained the Master rank, (1883) Lieutenant J.G. and (1887) Lieutenant.
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Indians. He received Roosevelt's support, and presented a report to the Congress in 1905.
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in 1945, the encyclopedic work was still unfinished. The project was taken over by
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purchased a large and varied collection of more than 1,900 Tlingit objects.)
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Emmons, George Thornton; (Ed.) Hope, Andrew; (Ed.) Thornton, Thomas (2001).
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to investigate the conditions of Alaska Natives and starvation among the
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His interest in Alaska Natives brought him into close contact with the
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Through his duties, Emmons got in contact with, and interested in, the
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Anthropological Publications of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
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Emmons, George Thornton & (Ed.) de Laguna, Frederica (1991).
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to accompany the Alaskan exhibit from 1891–1893.
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The Basketry of the Tlingit and the Chilkat Blanket
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The Basketry of the Tlingit. 100:(June 6, 1852 – June 11, 1945) was an 310:Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 212:. He became a regular contributor to 142:Emmons married Kittie Baker in 1886. 129:In 1882, Emmons was stationed on the 269:Journal articles by Emmons, G. T.: 13: 537:United States Naval Academy alumni 498:Works by or about George T. Emmons 421:. University of Washington Press. 329:(1913). Some Kitksan Totem Poles. 194:American Museum of Natural History 14: 548: 470: 352:Indian Notes and Monographs (ns) 198:Field Museum of Natural History 161:, bear hunting, feuds, and the 440: 380:. Friends of Sheldon Jackson. 372:Posthumously published books: 1: 315:(1911). The Tahltan Indians. 280:(1907). The Chilkat Blanket. 338:American Anthropologist (ns) 324:American Anthropologist (ns) 296:American Anthropologist (ns) 289:American Anthropologist (ns) 171:World's Columbian Exposition 7: 532:United States Navy officers 264: 215:The American Museum Journal 115:, Maryland. 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Index

Baltimore
United States Navy
ethnographic
U.S. Navy
Baltimore
George Foster Emmons
U.S. Naval Academy
Pinta
Alaska
Alaska Native
Tlingit
Tahltan
Chilkat weaving
potlatch
ethnographer
World's Columbian Exposition
salmon
Theodore Roosevelt
Copper River
American Museum of Natural History
Field Museum of Natural History
F. W. Putnam
Southeast Alaska
The American Museum Journal
Natural History
Franz Boas
Morris K. Jesup
Victoria, British Columbia
Frederica de Laguna
The Tlingit Indians

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