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Newton, Norman. FIRE IN THE RAVEN'S NEST: THE HAIDA OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.
New Press, Toronto, 1973, first edition.
173 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0887701779 B&w photographs, reproductions. "The Haida Indians, who inhabited part of the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia, never numbered more than 10,000 peo ple. Yet they influenced the advanced culture of many related coast tribes, and survived in a beautiful but dangerous area for many centuries before the white man came. The author makes a fascinating analysis of certain Haida legends, and d e m o n s t r ates that many of them were methods of remembering the movements of stars and planets, while others stored mathematical knowledge. Neither a formal history nor a contemporary chronicle, this book attempts to recover and describe what ha s be en l ef t of an interesting group of people, and their attempts to change and survive in a world far different from the one that their ancestors knew." Minor edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very minor ed ge we ar/ wri nkl ing , small gouping of a few tiny stains on front panel, minor soiling. VG/VG
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