Object Details
- Book Title
- Bulletin -- Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology.
- Caption
- Tlingit, Taku Tribe.
- Educational Notes
- The people pictured are part of the Tlingit Native American tribe, specifically of the Taku Tlingit tribe. The Tlingit people are originally from the Pacific Northwest Coast. They live in southeastern Alaska and Canada. You can see clothing made from deerskin and shredded bark. The Tlingit people have their own language, but it is very rare. Less than 500 people still speak this language! Their name for themselves is Lingit, which means people of the tides, due to their tribes location by the Pacific Ocean. The Tlingit culture focuses on family and spirituality. Each family in the tribe has a crest that is displayed on their totem poles, canoes, dishes, houses, and works of art. Like other coastal Native American tribes, the Tlingits diet consisted of many sea animals, as well as small game and berries. While no longer focused in one location, Tlingit tribe members can be found up and down the west coast of the United States and Canada, still living a life they love focused on traditional values and one another.
- Culture
- Native Americans
- 1910
- Publication Date
- 1910
- Image ID
- SIL-bulletin3021910smit_0778_crop
- Catalog ID
- 588092
- Rights
- Not in Copyright
- Type
- Photographic prints
- Publication Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
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- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Native Americans
- Tlingit Tribe
- Taku Tribe
- Language
- English
- Record ID
- silgoi_68404
