{"product_id":"the-tlingit-in-sitka-the-photography-of-elbridge-w-merrill-hardcover","title":"The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSergei Kan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a professional photographer. Merrill developed a good rapport with the town's Indigenous Tlingit community, and his images of the Tlingit provide an invaluable historical and ethnographic record of their daily lives, religious life, and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSergei Kan presents a first-ever collection of Merrill's photographs, which includes images of important Tlingit events like funerals and a famous ku.éex'(potlatch), commissioned portraits, and subsistence activities and other scenes of everyday life. Respected and admired by Sitka's entire multiethnic community, Merrill also photographed locals with Russian-Native Alaskan ancestry and Euro-American backgrounds and expressed a passion for Alaska's spectacular settings through images of nature. Drawing on forty-five years of research, Kan complements the collection with an expert biography of Merrill while analyzing the ways he portrayed Sitka's Indigenous people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated with 150 images, \u003ci\u003eThe Tlingit in Sitka\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to discover images of Tlingit life in early colonial history and the artist who dedicated his life to recording it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSergei Kan is professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is author of \u003ci\u003eSymbolic Immortality: Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978210246957,"sku":"9780295753478","price":48.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/MazoBSMeWa9780295753478.webp?v=1775801035","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-tlingit-in-sitka-the-photography-of-elbridge-w-merrill-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}