Dena'inaq' Huch'ulyeshi
The Dena'ina Way of Living
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
Introduction by Suzi Jones
Lavishly illustrated with more than six hundred photographs, maps, and drawings, Dena’inaq’ Huch’ulyeshi contains 469 entries on Dena’ina objects in European and American collections. It is enriched with examples of traditional Dena’ina narratives, first-person accounts, and interviews. Thirteen essays on the history and culture of the Athabascan people put the pieces into a larger historical context. This catalog is a comprehensive reference that will also accompany a large-scale exhibition running September 2013 through January 2014 at the Anchorage Museum.
Yagheli Du!
Foreword
Elders, Advisers, and Lenders to the Exhibition
Introduction and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Dena’ina Culture and History, by James A. Fall
2 Quyushi Uqu Che’el’ani: Beluga Hunting, by Shem Pete
3 An Overview of Research on Dena’ina Culture, History, and Language, by James A. Fall
4 Dena’ina Archaeology, by Douglas Reger
5 Dena’ina Qeshqa: Leaders and Political Organization, by James A. Fall
6 The Nulchina Clan Origin Story of the Upper Inlet Dena’ina, told by Shem Pete with assistance from Billy Pete; transcription and commentary by James A. Fall
7 “What Is Good, What Is No Good”: The Traditional Dena’ina Worldview, by Alan Boraas
8 Ye’uh Qach’dalts’iyi: “What We Live On from the Outdoors”, by Karen Evanoff and Michelle Ravenmoon
9 Dach’hdi lu t’qidyuq… “and that’s the way it happened”: The Tradition of Dena’ina Storytelling, by Joan M. Tenenbaum
10 Gunhti Stsukdu’a: Ki Nch’uk’a “Tanaina” Ghayele’ This is My Story: “Tanaina” No More, by Aaron Leggett
11 An Inland Dena’ina Material Culture Anthology, by James Kari
12 Photo Essay: Making a Whitefish Trap
13 “Dressed as a Rich Person”: Dena’ina Clothing in the Nineteenth Century, by Judy Thompson
14 Silent Messaging: Quill and Bead Ornament on Nineteenth-Century Dena’ina Clothing, by Kate C. Duncan
15 Dena’ina Collections in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), by Sergei Korsun
16 Adrian Jacobsen’s Dena’ina Collection in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, by Viola König
17 Catalog of Discovery: Dena’ina Material Culture in Museum Collections
The Dena’ina Sound System and Orthography, by James Kari
About the Authors
Bibliography
Index
Anthropology: General Anthropology
History: General History
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