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Social Science Native American Studies

Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia

by (author) Harlan Ingersoll Smith

edited by Brian D. Compton, Bruce Rigsby & Marie-Luc Tarpent

Publisher
Canadian Museum of History
Initial publish date
Jan 1997
Category
Native American Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781772822960
    Publish Date
    Jan 1997
    List Price
    $21.99

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During the 1920s Harlan I. Smith, an archaeologist with the National Museums of Canada, documented plant and animal knowledge and use among the Gitksan, Nuxalk and Ulkatcho Carrier of British Columbia. Smith’s work is the earliest, relatively comprehensive ethnobotanical study for any Tsimshianic group. This edited version of his manuscript contains information on 112 botanical species and on their traditional cultural roles among the Gitksan

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