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Title |
Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory |
Object # |
RC 2015.0.1.56 |
Object Name |
Book |
Multimedia link |
Saturday Spotlight Facebook Post |
Call Number |
897.2 Dauenhauer |
Published Date |
1990 |
Author |
Dauenhauer, Richard |
Additional Author |
Dauenhauer, Nora |
Publisher |
University of Washington Press |
Description |
Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory Volume 2. Edited by Nora Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Juneau : Sealaska Heritage Foundation, c1990. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature Volume 2 From back cover: "Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit is the first publication of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance. It features Tlingit texts with facing English translations and detailed annotations; photographs of the orators and the settings in which the speeches were delivered; and biographies of the elders. There are thirty-two speeches by twenty-one Tlingit elders. Most were taped between 1968 and 1988, but two speeches were recorded on wax cylinders by the Harriman Expedition in Sitka in 1899, and are the oldest known sound recordings of Tlingit." |
Physical Description |
15cm X 23cm, soft cover, 570 pages, soft cover |
LCNO |
90-43234 |
ISBN |
0-29596850-8 |
Search Terms |
Alaska Native Alaska Native Brotherhood Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Alaska Native Sisterhood Culture Language Legends Mythology Northwest Coast Native Oral History Religion Saturday Spotlight Tlingit |
Relation |
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Collection |
Ketchikan Museums, RC 2015.0.1.56 |