The Petroglyphs of Southeastern Alaska

1940 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. Keithahn
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Decorative Art ◽  
Culture Area ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
Southern Half ◽  
Concentric Circles

The Tlingit Indians occupy all of Southeastern Alaska from Dixon's Entrance to Cape St. Elias except the southern half of Prince of Wales Island, which is Haida, and Annette Island, which is a Tsimshian reservation. Formerly all of this region was Tlingit.Throughout this entire district and extending into the southern half of the Northwest Coast culture area, petroglyphs abound. These inscriptions in their simpler forms have much in common with those of widely separated regions of the earth. There are simple cups, rings, spirals, concentric circles, etc. But the typical petroglyphs of this area are as original as the well-known decorative art of the Northwest Coast and apparently closely affiliated with it in both form and meaning.It is the goal of this article to present tangible evidence that these petroglyphs originated from (a) natural effects and (b) depressions worn in rock in the process of tool-making.

Footprints and Faith: Religion and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Alexandra Walsham
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Dome Of The Rock ◽  
Tangible Evidence

The idea that divine beings, holy people and magical creatures leave behind permanent marks of their immortality on the surface of the earth is common to many cultures and spiritual systems. Throughout history curious hollows, cavities, and coloured stains on stone and rock have been explained as tangible evidence of the presence and intervention of deities, saints, prophets, angels and demons. The folk motif of the miraculous impression of a foot, hand or limb finds frequent expression within Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Footprint shrines and cults abound in the Middle East, India, south-east Asia and China, from the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and Qadam Sharif in Delhi to Phra Sat in Thailand. Variously revered as the footmark of Buddha, Siva, Adam and St Thomas the Aposde, Sri Pada in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most compelling emblem of the polyvalency of this intriguing phenomenon and its capacity to range across the full spectrum of religious traditions.

Hierarchy, Communalism, and the Spatial Order of Northwest Coast Plank Houses: A Comparative Study

2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Coupland ◽  
Terence Clark ◽  
Amanda Palmer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Spatial Order ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Culture Area ◽  
The Relationship

The tension between hierarchy and communalism is a prominent feature of social life in transegalitarian societies. How are hierarchy and communalism combined in these societies? How are they materialized in everyday life? In this paper, we examine the relationship between hierarchy and communalism in the transegalitarian societies of the Northwest Coast of North America. We focus on households, the primary socioeconomic units of the culture area, and on the plank houses that contained them. Despite the apparent contradiction between hierarchy and communalism, we find that in Northwest Coast households with highly developed social hierarchies, communal practices remained deeply entrenched, while in households with weaker hierarchies, communalism was less developed. The relative importance of hierarchy and communalism in daily household life was clearly materialized in the spatial order of plank houses. By simultaneously objectifying both principles, the house may have played an important role in easing the tension between them.

scholarly journals Of Anthropophagy and Anthropology: Monsters and Men in Beowulf and Northwest Coast Myth and Ritual

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Michael E. Harkin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Epic Poem

Abstract Monsters can be divided into two categories: human-like and non-human. Non-human monsters tend to be chthonic beings that are associated with the earth and natural forces. Humanoid monsters represent metaphorical transformations of humanity itself, and as such reveal basic cultural values, such as sociability, while displaying their opposite. Humanoid monsters are the more terrifying, precisely because we recognize ourselves in them, although in an uncanny refraction. In the epic poem Beowulf and in myth and ritual of the Kwakiutl and Heiltsuk cultures of the Northwest Coast, manlike monsters play a central role.

scholarly journals Pedagogical Values of Renaissance Travels

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 185-191
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Katarzyna Gębora
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
New Model ◽  
Culture Area ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Social

The time of the Renaissance created the new model of the man-humanist. European patterns stimulated to the cultural or educational development of different fields of the social life. A bloom of the education took place, a thirst for knowledge, an interest in learning, world, travels, getting new experiences. A man educated, being good at foreign languages, opened for changes was appreciated. Geographical discoveries and their effects forever changed the image of the earth. Sixteenth-century peregrinations contributed to the development of states, economic and civilization expansion, and the bloom of culture area. Pedagogic meaning of Renaissance journeys is indisputable. Experience from voyages all over world, extending ranges, the permeation of cultures, the learning of foreign languages, the increase in the knowledge, the development of learning, education and artistic fields bear fruit to this day in the global scale.

The Inland Tlingit

1953 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catharine McClellan
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Culture Area ◽  
Group Sharing

Ethnographers confidently point to the Tlingit-speaking population of southeastern Alaska as an important component of the Northwest Coast culture area. They cite these Indians as a maritime oriented group, sharing a common speech and many distinctive culture traits. About fourteen Tlingit tribes have been listed and in part described for the Alaska coast.I should like to discuss three less well-known Tlingit-speaking bands now located in the interior of northern British Columbia and of southern Yukon Territory. These three neighboring groups are: the Tagish band of Carcross at the junction of lakes Bennett and Nares; the Atlin band on the lake of the same name; and the Teslin band with headquarters on Teslin Lake. This is the farthest inland of the lakes mentioned, and it is little more than a hundred miles from the mild, damp Pacific coast with its abundant sea and shore life.

The Strata Machine

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Zalasiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Chicago Tribune ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inert Mass ◽  
Resource Exhaustion ◽  
The Many

History is bunk—or so Henry Ford is reputed to have said. Folk memory, though, simplifies recorded statements. What Henry Ford actually told the Chicago Tribune was ‘History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only tradition that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history that we make today.’ So folk memory, in this case, did pretty well reflect the kernel of his views. Henry Ford also said that ‘Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it; if you are sick, you shouldn’t take it.’ Henry Ford was a very powerful, very rich man of strongly expressed views. And he was quite wrong on both counts. Not having known Henry Ford, interplanetary explorers may have their own view of history. As, perhaps, an indispensable means of understanding the present and of predicting the future. As a way of deducing how the various phenomena—physical, chemical, and biological—on any planet operate. And as a means of avoiding the kind of mistake—such as resource exhaustion or intra-species war—that could terminate the ambitions of any promising and newly emerged intelligent life-form. On Earth, and everywhere else, things are as they are because they have developed that way. The history of that development must be worked out from tangible evidence: chiefly the objects and traces of past events and processes preserved on this planet itself. The surface of the Earth is no place to preserve deep history. This is in spite of—and in large part because of—the many events that have taken place on it. The surface of the future Earth, one hundred million years from now, will not have preserved evidence of contemporary human activity. One can be quite categorical about this. Whatever arrangement of oceans and continents, or whatever state of cool or warmth will exist then, the Earth’s surface will have been wiped clean of human traces. For the Earth is active. It is not just an inert mass of rock, an enormous sphere of silicates and metals to be mined by its freight of organisms, much as caterpillars chew through leaves.

Zooarchaeology of the pre-Contact Northwest coast of North America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory G. Monks
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Northern California ◽  
Short History ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Klamath River ◽  
Culture Area

The Northwest Coast of North America (NWC) is a culture area that extends from the Klamath River in northern California to Yakutat Bay in southeastern Alaska. The area’s topography varies from a relatively linear open Pacific shoreline in Oregon and Washington to a highly irregular shoreline of islands, archipelagos, and fjords with mountains often descending precipitously into the sea. Archaeology on the Northwest Coast of North America has a relatively short history, and zooarchaeology has an even shorter one. This paper presents a summary of that history for the pre-contact period, traces the research that has been done to date and suggests some directions for future studies.

Decorated and Sculptured Skulls from New Guinea

1899 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 553-572
Author(s):  
Sir Wm. Turner
Keyword(s):  
New Guinea ◽  
Frontal Bone ◽  
Decorative Art ◽  
Precise Locality ◽  
Northern Shore ◽  
Concentric Circles ◽  
Gulf Of Papua ◽  
To Come ◽  
Fly River

The ten skulls to which I would direct attention this evening were collected in the island of New Guinea. The first to come into my possession was given to me in 1895 by one of my pupils, Mr F. N. Johnston, the nine others have been recently purchased from dealers. I am not able to name the tribe or tribes by whom the skulls had been sculptured, neither can I state the precise locality at which they were obtained; but the dealer from whom I bought eight specimens told me that they came from the Purari River district. This river rises in the range of the Albert Victor Mountains, and after a known course of 130 miles, it discharges its waters by several mouths into the head of the great gulf of Papua. It is said to be the largest river in the British territory, next to the Fly River.In a valuable memoir by Messrs Dorsey and Holmes, on a collection of sixteen decorated skulls from New Guinea, published in 1897, the authors state that although they cannot give the locality from which the specimens came, it is probable that they were collected on the northern shore of the Papuan Gulf, in the British Protectorate. Mantegazza and Regalia have figured a skull from Canoe Island in the Fly River, where the frontal bone was sculptured with four concentric circles. Professor Haddon, in his elaborate memoir on the Decorative Art of New Guinea, says that in the museum at Florence are seven skulls, collected by D'Albertis in the Fly River district, which have designs carved on the frontal bone.

The motion of a lunar orbiter

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Y. Kozai
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Artificial Satellite ◽  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Triaxial Ellipsoid ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Close Satellite ◽  
The Mean

The motion of an artificial satellite around the Moon is much more complicated than that around the Earth, since the shape of the Moon is a triaxial ellipsoid and the effect of the Earth on the motion is very important even for a very close satellite.The differential equations of motion of the satellite are written in canonical form of three degrees of freedom with time depending Hamiltonian. By eliminating short-periodic terms depending on the mean longitude of the satellite and by assuming that the Earth is moving on the lunar equator, however, the equations are reduced to those of two degrees of freedom with an energy integral.Since the mean motion of the Earth around the Moon is more rapid than the secular motion of the argument of pericentre of the satellite by a factor of one order, the terms depending on the longitude of the Earth can be eliminated, and the degree of freedom is reduced to one.Then the motion can be discussed by drawing equi-energy curves in two-dimensional space. According to these figures satellites with high inclination have large possibilities of falling down to the lunar surface even if the initial eccentricities are very small.The principal properties of the motion are not changed even if plausible values ofJ3andJ4of the Moon are included.This paper has been published in Publ. astr. Soc.Japan15, 301, 1963.

Formation of Lunar Craters and Bright Rays as a Result of Meteorite Impacts

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
K. P. Stanyukovich ◽  
V. A. Bronshten
Keyword(s):  
Explosive Charge ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Meteorite Impacts ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Lunar Craters ◽  
The Impact

The phenomena accompanying the impact of large meteorites on the surface of the Moon or of the Earth can be examined on the basis of the theory of explosive phenomena if we assume that, instead of an exploding meteorite moving inside the rock, we have an explosive charge (equivalent in energy), situated at a certain distance under the surface.

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