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Download or read book Gwich'in Athabascan Implements written by Thomas A. O’Brien and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most detailed and well-illustrated study of material culture for any northern Athabascan language group to date, Gwich’in Athabascan Implements reproduces pre- and early post-contact tools that are historically important to the Athabaskan people. A long-term collaboration between anthropologist Thomas O’Brien and Athabascan elder David Salmon, this volume provides more than one hundred one-to-one sketches of a wide variety of implements, many of which are no longer commonly found in use.