Alaska Native Music and Dance: The Spirit of Survival
Theses
Author/Creator
Maria Del Pilar Williams
Description
Music Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1996.
Looks at the history of two examples of regalia that traveled to France; one with a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1889 and the other worn by a performer at the Jardin d'Acclimation (a human zoo) in Paris in 1911.
Highlights the excavation of grass artifacts near Quinhagak, Alaska and what they can reveal about the precontact Yup'ik people.
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
Using archaeological data to better understand the role of animals in precontact Yup'ik communities.
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
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