Description:
IIn 1881, two German geographers were on their way to the continental United States when they came upon a Native population in southeast Alaska that had formed a society far more complex than those of most other North American tribes.
Brief description:
The late Dr. Erna Gunther was a professor of anthropology and director of the Washington State Museum at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research of the native people of the Pacific Northwest spanned six decades.
Review Quotes:
"The Tlingit Indians is one of the cornerstone of Tlingit ethnographic research and must in one's library on the subject."
--Peter L. Corey, Alaska State Museum Curator (retired)