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Research history and American-Asian links -- Crossroads of continents : review and prospect / William W. Fitzhugh -- American-Asian ties as reflected in Athapaskan material culture / Galina I. Dzeniskevich -- The Jesup North Pacific expedition : a history of Russian-American cooperation / Liudmila P. Kuz'mina -- Collections of the native peoples of the Russian northeast in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography / Elena A. Mikhailova -- The paleolithic of Kamchatka and Chukotka and the problem of the peopling of America / Nikolai N. Dikov -- New dental anthropological observations relevant to the human population system of the Greater Beringian Realm / Christy G. Turner II -- Symbol and object : complexity in North Pacific cultures -- The bleeding coat : the art of North Pacific ritual clothing / Valerie Chaussonnet, Bernadette Driscoll -- Deciphering Aleut/Koniag iconography / Lydia T. Black -- Qasqiluteng : feasting and ceremonialism among the traditional Koniag of Kodiak Island, Alaska / Richard H. Jordan. |
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Eskimo masks from Kodiak Island in the collections of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg / Roza G. Liapunova -- Traditional choreogrphic art of northeastern Siberia / Mariia Ia. Zhornitskaia -- Koniag Eskimo poisoned-dart whaling / Aron Crowell -- Watercraft in the North Pacific : a comparative view / Jean-Loup Rousselot -- Canoes of the northwest coast / Bill Holm -- Social structure of the peoples of northeastern Asia / Vladimir I. Vasil'ev -- Traditional culture of the peoples of the Russian Pacific coast / Chuner M. Taksami -- Beads at the crossroads of continents / Peter Francis, Jr. -- Interactions : trade, war, and peace -- Interethnic ties in far northeastern Siberia / Il'ia S. Gurvich -- Eskimo war and peace / Ann Fienup-Riordan -- Aleut in the Kurile Islands : 1820-1870 / Valerii O. Shubin -- Recent ethnic processes among the peoples of the Russian Pacific coast / Zoia P. Sokolova -- Historical background and modern trends in native Russian bilingualism among Siberian native peoples / Sergei A. Aruiunov, Vladimir I. Vasil'ev -- Crossroads? A twentieth-century history of contacts |
| General note | "Presented at a symposium held at the opening of the joint Soviet, American, and Canadian exhibition, Crossroads of continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska, September 22-23, 1988, at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 92038689 |
| ISBN | 1560982020 (alk. paper) |
