... number of times by Londoners and, occasionally, American visitors who were kind enough to offer me objects they had found in the London markets. Leyland and Crystal Peyton, who had an eagle eye for spotting works of ethnic interest ...
Most notorious was the expedition of the fur - trading family called Peyton in the spring of 1819. This was intended to recover stolen traps , to establish trading relations with the Beothuk and to attempt to bring an individual back to ...
Salmon were trapped , speared and caught by trolling hooks . Other fish include steelhead trout , herring , sturgeon and vast halibut caught on recoiled hooks in the south and embellished hooks in the north ; herring were ...
Cole , Douglas . Captured Heritage : The Scramble for Northwest ... Benson , William R. The Stone and Kelsey Massacre on the Shores of Clear Lake in 1849 ' , Quarterly of the California Historical Society 11 ( 3 ) , 1932 : 266 73 .
"Arising from a conference held at the British Museum in 2001, Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland is a wide-ranging and authoritative account of clothing use in the north.
A general account of the photography of the indigenous peoples of the North American Arctic, this text brings together native and non-native photographers, archivists and anthropologists. It explores both the...
Description of the North American section of the Cook collection, and three further eighteenth-century accessions of Pacific North American artifacts. Catalogue discusses in detail, and illustrates 137 Aleut, Eskimo and...
The essays in this volume distill the exciting exchanges that took place on that occasion.
Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in Northeastern North America, 1600-1900