Kijik: An Historic Tanaina Indian Settlement

Description

Authors: Vanstone, James W. (1925-2001) and Townsend, Joan B. (1933-2006)

Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History

Pub Date: 1970

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  Previous owner’s name on upper front cover corner, and handwritten on page 81.  One approx. 4″ tear to front cover at spine head, now taped.  One approx. 1/2″ fold on lower front cover corner that diminishes as it extends to approx. page 65.  Smudging to front cover.   Partial title and authors’ names handwritten on spine.

Notes: Fieldiana Anthropology Series Volume 59, Publication 1089.    From the library of the late archaeologist J.O. Brew, his signature on cover and page 81.  Kijik was inhabited by Athapaskan-speaking  Tanaina Indians, who relied on ocean-going salmon to develop a sedentary lifestyle based on a maritime economy.  The area occupied by the Tanaina forms an approximate horseshoe shape around Cook Inlet.