Crossroads Alaska: Native Cultures of Alaska and Siberia

 Provides an overview of the traditions and customs of various Alaska Native groups, sometimes through extensive direct quotes from community members, before showcasing the cataloged collection of objects featured in the exhibition "Crossroads Alaska." Artifacts are grouped by the following themes: home; children: dolls and toys; fashion; spirits; cuisine: food for people, food for spirits; people, animals, and the land; people, animals, and the sea; strangers: war, trade, contact. The work concludes with sections dedicated to Alaska Native Graphic Art and Maps. The leading museums and institutions for the exhibition are: the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks; the Koniag Area Native Association, Kodiak, Alaska; the Arsenev Maritime State Museum, Valdivostok; the Sakhalin Regional Museum, Iuzhno-Sakhalinsk; the Arsenev Regional Museum, Khabarovsk; the Northeastern Interdisciplinary Research Center, Magadan; and the Kamchatka Regional Museum, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii.

Contributers Include: Barbara Svarny Carlson, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Bernic Joseph, Miranda Wright, Melinda Chase, Gordon L. Pullar, Richard Knecht, Jana Harcharek, Rachel Craig, Larry Kairaiuak, Darlene Orr, Igor Krupnik, William W. Fitzhugh, Susan W. Fair