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Northwest Coast

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Texts

The Whale House of the Chilkat — George T. EmmonsGeorge T. Emmons’s 1916 American Museum of Natural History paper on the Whale House of the Kon-nuh-ta-di (Raven) family at Kluckwan on the Chilkat River, with an account of the Tlingit and the Chilkat, the house’s carved screen and posts and the stories they tell, its ceremonial objects, and the new house of 1899–1901.
Chinook Oral Literature1 page
Coos Oral Literature1 page
Kwakiutl Oral Literature1 page
Literary Retellings2 pages
Tsimshian Oral Literature2 pages