Calendar of Indian captivities and allied documents, [1953-1955].

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Calendar of Indian captivities and allied documents, [1953-1955].

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Part of Barbeau's calendar of captivities, supplementing his lists of Greenwood and Deering collections. As stated in the introduction, "Ì€ndian captivities' usually mean books, booklets and pamphlets containing therecollections of white Americans who, after they were captured by Indians and regained their freedom, wrote down their personal experiences at the hands of their captors or had then recorded for publication." Lists unpublished captivities and bibliographies. Includes unpublished materials, largely northwest-coast narratives of inter-Indian captures taken by William Beynon.

[1], 307 p. ; v.

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Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969

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Charles Marius Barbeau was a Canadian anthropologist and an American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund and a Wenner-Gren Foundation grantee. From the description of Checklist of American Indian antiquities found in European institutions ..., ca. 1950. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122439988 From the description of Calendar of Indian captivities and allied documents, [1953-1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465713 Charles Mariu...

Beynon, William, 1889-1958

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Born to a Welsh father and Niska mother of high status, William Beynon was raised in Victoria, B.C., speaking both Niska and English. A member of the Wolf (Laxgibu) phratry, Beynon was schooled in some of the traditional responsibilities of a hereditary Tsimshian chief, however he later wrote that when he first traveled to Prince Rupert in 1914 to perform rites associated with the funeral of his maternal uncle, a chief of the wolf phratry, he felt that he was insufficiently knowledg...