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Description for Menadelook
Hardcover. Editor(s): Norbert, Eileen. Num Pages: 160 pages, 100 black & white illustrations, 100 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; 3JJ; AJB; AJC; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 262 x 18. Weight in Grams: 840.
Menadelook showcases nearly one hundred photographs taken by the Inupiat photographer Charles Menadelook that document life in Wales in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, in the early 1900s. Photographs of Inupiat life in the early twentieth century are rare, and photographs taken by an indigenous person are nearly nonexistent. These photographs provide a unique view into the Inupiat world during the early twentieth century and give both a pictorial and Native perspective on Inupiat traditions and historical events.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295999333
SKU
V9780295999333
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Ref
99-1
About Eileen Norbert
Charles Menadelook, an Inupiat, was born in Wales, Alaska, in 1892. One of the first Alaskan Natives to become a teacher, he taught in Diomede, Shishmaref, Shaktoolik, Kotzebue, Noatak, Sinuk, Nome, Gambell, and Unalaska. The book is edited by Menadelook’s granddaughter, Eileen Norbert, who first started collecting these photographs as a senior in anthropology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. ... Read more
Reviews for Menadelook
"The story of Menadelook’s life is fascinating and well told and would be a worthy book even without the photographs, but to have the pictures as well makes this volume a treasure. . . . Much like the Menadelook we meet in these pages, this book is modest on the surface, but its contribution to Alaska is profound. It presents ... Read more