Natives of the far North : Alaska's vanishing culture in the eye of Edward Sheriff Curtis /

Lowry, former managing editor of Alaska and the author of Northern Lights (Stackpole, 1992), has selected the best of Curtis's famous photographs of indigenous Alaskans taken at the turn of the century and used them to illustrate her collection of native legends and stories. The customs, legends, history, ceremony, and traditional life of the "Eskimo" peoples of Alaska are sensitively portrayed opposite frequent full-page images by the incomparable Curtis (The North American Indian, Aperture, 1991), whose monumental photographic works on Native Americans have never been superseded. Through Curtis's "eyes," Lowry explores numerous facets of life among the Nunivak, King, Diomede, and Kingigan people. Daily life, centered around the ubiquitous whale and the walrus hunt, is brought alive through text and image. Recommended for academic and public library Native American collections.-Bruce Alan Hanson, Wayzata East J.H.S. Lib., Minn. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.