The Cape Alitak Petroglyphs: From the Old People: Llirluni cuuliraq suuiut cingiyaq Alitak patriitaq - Softcover

Knebel, Woody

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578642124 ISBN 13: 9781578642120

Publisher: Alaska Donning Company, 2007

Synopsis

The Cape Alitak Petroglyphs is the culmination of Woody Knebel’s ten years spent drawing, photographing, and experiencing the mysteries of this windswept place at the southern entrance to the Kodiak Archipelago. Shedding important light on Kodiak rock art, this volume provides in-depth cultural and artistic insight into an unusually rich picture of Alutiiq conventions, traditional symbolic history, and spiritual belief. Accompanied by color maps and black-and-white photography, The Cape Alitak Petroglyphs captures the majesty and mystery of the five hundred individual images that form the largest known cluster of stationary rock carvings in the Alaskan region and provides an important comparison to the many other forms of Alutiiq artistic expression preserved in artifacts and historic objects.

About this title

About the Author:

Woody Knebel studied marine science at the University of Victoria and spent many years in Bristol Bay, Alaska, working side by side with the Y’upik people. While working at a turn-of-the-century salmon cannery at the south end of Kodiak Island, he came into contact with the aboriginal lands of the Alutiiq people and their ancestors—the creators of the Cape Alitak petroglyphs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alaska Donning Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1578642124
• ISBN 13: 9781578642120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128