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Erna Gunther

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PhD Anthropology University of Washington

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According to Wikipedia, Erna Gunther was an American anthropologist who taught for many years at the University of Washington in Seattle. Gunther's work on ethnobotany is still extensively consulted today. Biography Gunther graduated from Barnard College in 1919, as a student of Franz Boas, and received her MA in anthropology from Columbia University in 1920, studying under Boas. After graduating, she moved with her husband, Leslie Spier, to the University of Washington in 1921. After leaving for a short period of time with her husband, she returned in 1929. When her husband left in 1930, she stayed at the university; at that time the marriage dissolved.

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Erna Gunther's Published Works

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Indians of Puget Sound (63)
Ethnobotany of western Washington (1973) (60)
Ethnobotany of Western Washington : the knowledge and use of indigenous plants by native Americans (1973) (54)
Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America As Seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders During the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century (1972) (39)
AN ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST SALMON CEREMONY1 (1926) (39)
Alaskan voyage 1881-1883 : an expedition to the Northwest coast of America (1977) (19)
A further analysis of the first salmon ceremony (19)
The Rock Paintings of the Chumash, A Study of a California Indian Culture (1966) (18)
The Shaker Religion Of The Northwest (1949) (14)
Art in the life of the Northwest Coast Indians : with a catalog of the Rasmussen collection of Northwest Indian art at the Portland Art Museum (1966) (11)
Klallam folk tales (5)
Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America (1972) (4)
Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America. (1973) (4)
Lost Heritage of Alaska: The Adventure and Art of Alaskan Coastal Indians (1969) (4)
Indian Music of the Pacific Northwest Coast (1970) (3)
THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT OF SOME PLAINS TRAITS (1950) (3)
Northwest coast Indian art : an exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair Fine Arts Pavilion, April 21-October 21, 1962 (1962) (3)
PRIMITIVE ART: Canadian Eskimo Art. (1957) (2)
Daniel Sutherland Davidson, 1900–1952 (1954) (2)
Material Culture, the Museum and Primitive Art (1950) (1)
PERMANENT COLLECTION (1916) (1)
ARTS, CRAFTS, MUSIC, AND LITERATURE: Masks of the Northwest Coast. Robert Ritzenthaler and Lee A. Parsons, eds (1968) (1)
Lost Heritage of Alaska: The Adventure and Art of the Alaskan Coastal Indians. Polly Miller and Leon Gordon Miller (1968) (0)
[Treatment of transverse spinal paralysis]. (1951) (0)
[Not Available]. (1947) (0)
A Tsimshian Version of the Test Theme (1925) (0)
Art of the Northwest Coast Indians. Robert Bruce Inverarity (1951) (0)
On the position of napkin dermatitis as an eczematous disease (1987) (0)
Indian Craft Enterprise in the Northwest (1961) (0)
A White Woman among the Masai . Marguerite Mallett. (1924) (0)
[Not Available]. (1949) (0)
General and Theoretical: Mirror 170r Man. Clyde Kluckhchn (1950) (0)
A catalogue of the ethnological collections in the Sheldon Jackson Museum (1978) (0)
A Re-Evaluation of the Cultural Position of the Nootka (1960) (0)
Indian Life of the Northwest Coast of North America (1976) (0)
The Many Faces of Primitive Art: A Critical Anthology. Douglas Fraser (1968) (0)
The Aboriginal Culture of the Cáhita Indians Ralph L. Beals (1945) (0)
NORTH AMERICA: The Historic Trail of the American Indians. Thomas P. Christensen (1935) (0)
METHODS AND PRINCIPLES: Handbook of Ethnography. James G. Leyburn (1933) (0)
NORTH AMERICA: Ancient Americans, the Archaeological Story of Two Continents. Emily C. Davis (1935) (0)
When Buffalo Ran. George Bird Grinnell (1921) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Crow Indian Beadwork: A Descriptive and Historical Study. William Wildschut and John C. Ewers (1961) (0)
Southwest Indians and their art (1965) (0)
Collection of correspondence from Erna Gunther. (1949) (0)
163. Mexican Art. (1952) (0)
[Luxations of the pelvic ring against the vertebral column]. (1952) (0)
The American Indians and Their Music . Frances Densmore. (1928) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Songs of the Nootka Indians of Western Vancouver Island. Helen H. Roberts and Morris Swadesh (1957) (0)

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Indian life on the Northwest coast of North America, as seen by the early explorers and fur traders during the last decades of the eighteenth century

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