Threads of Resistance: Unraveling the Meanings of 19th Century Tlingit Beaded Regalia

• Main Author: Smetzer, Megan A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2002
• Subjects: Art and Design; Erna; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/416; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/tsaconf/article/1415/viewcontent/smetzer.pdf

Although not the first to make the connection, Ensign Albert Niblack of the U.S. Navy wrote most succinctly in 1888: “There seems nothing unreasonable in tracing the origin of much of the dance and ceremonial paraphernalia to customs originating in war.” Since that time, numerous scholars have sugge...