The Downfall of Temlaham
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, c. 1928. Edition: First Edition., Binding: Original publisher’s quarter cloth with marbled boards. Title illustration pasted on top cover. Title and ornamentation on label on spine. Front and bottom edges uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. , Notes: Charles Marius Barbeau (1883 – 1969) was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is considered a founder of Canadian anthropology. He is best known for an early championing of Québecois folk culture, and for his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization, narrative and musical traditions, and plastic arts of the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples in British Columbia (Tsimshian, Gitxsan, and Nisga'a), and other Northwest Coast peoples. Barbeau was a prolific writer, producing both scholarly articles and monographs and books which presented Québécois and First Nations oral traditions for a mass audience. Examples include The Downfall of Temlaham, which weaves ancient Gitksan oral traditions with contemporary contact history. Label of Litchfield’s Limited Booksellers and Stationers, from Victoria B.C., is pasted on verso of the bottom cover. , Size: 8vo (217x157mm). , Illustration: Complete with many colour illustrations., Category: Book Americas Indians; Book Canada;Book Social Sciences. The Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Item #B5507
Edition: First Edition., Binding: Original publisher’s quarter cloth with marbled boards. Title illustration pasted on top cover. Title and ornamentation on label on spine. Front and bottom edges uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. , Notes: Charles Marius Barbeau (1883 – 1969) was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is considered a founder of Canadian anthropology. He is best known for an early championing of Québecois folk culture, and for his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization, narrative and musical traditions, and plastic arts of the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples in British Columbia (Tsimshian, Gitxsan, and Nisga'a), and other Northwest Coast peoples. Barbeau was a prolific writer, producing both scholarly articles and monographs and books which presented Québécois and First Nations oral traditions for a mass audience. Examples include The Downfall of Temlaham, which weaves ancient Gitksan oral traditions with contemporary contact history. Label of Litchfield’s Limited Booksellers and Stationers, from Victoria B.C., is pasted on verso of the bottom cover. , Size: 8vo (217x157mm). , Illustration: Complete with many colour illustrations., Category: Book Americas Indians; Book Canada;Book Social Sciences.
Price: $175.00