Mercury Series; Ethnology 132
210 pages; 51 illustrations; 8 tables; 6.75x9.5";
English During the 1920s Harlan Smith, an archaeologist with the National Museum of Canada, documented plant and animal knowledge. This volume is an edited version of a manuscript by Smith, which contains information on 112 botanical species and their traditional cultural roles among the Gitksan. Smith's work is the earliest ethnobotanical study for any Tsimshianic group.