Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia /

During the 1920s Harlan I. Smith, an archaeologist with the National Museum of Canada, documented plant and animal knowledge and use among the Gitksan, Nuxalk and Ulkatcho Carrier of British Columbia. This volume is an edited version of a manuscript by Smith, which contains information on 112 botani...

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Autore principale: Smith, Harlan I., 1872-1940
Enti autori: Canadian Ethnology Service, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Altri autori: Tarpent, Marie-Lucie, 1941-, Compton, Brian Douglas, 1958-, Rigsby, Bruce
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, ©1997.
Serie:Mercury series.
Paper (Canadian Ethnology Service) ; no. 132.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1716b
Sommario:
  • The Gitksan People, Their Language, and Their Homeland
  • Botanical Environment of the Gitksan
  • Brief Account of Harlan I. Smith's Activities at the National Museum Leading to the Production of "Ethno-botany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia"
  • Smith's Original Manuscript. pt. 1. H.I. Smith's "Ethno-botany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia" pt. 2. The Gitksan Consultants and Smith's Research Methodology
  • Additional H.I. Smith Materials on Gitksan Ethnobotany and the Kitwanga Garden of Native Plants. Transcription of the Gitksan Ethnobotanical Lexicon. Botanical Species Collected as Voucher Specimens or Observed and Noted by H.I. Smith. Plants and Fungi Known or Used by the Gitksan. Fungi (Mushrooms and Their Relatives). Lichens (Lichenized Fungi). Bryophytes (Mosses and Their Relatives). Pteridophytes (Ferns and Their Relatives). Gymnosperms (Conifers and the Taxad, Western Yew). Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Dicotyledons.