Aldona Jonaitis is the

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, and an author who has published widely on Native American art. From 1975 to 1989, Jonaitis was a faculty member and administrator at the State University at Stony Brook. Then from 1989 to 1993 she was the vice president for public programs at the

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Books

* ''From the Land of the Totem Poles'' (1986) * ''Art of the Northern Tlingit'' (1986) * ''Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch'' (1991) * ''Art of the Northwest Coast'' (2006) * ''The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine '' (1999) * ''Looking North : Art from the University of Alaska Museum'' (1998) * ''Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn'' (1993) * ''The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine'' (1999) * ''Tlingit halibut hooks: An analysis of the visual symbols of a rite of passage'' (1981)

References

External links

full text of The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine online
Year of birth missing (living people) American women non-fiction writers Writers from Fairbanks, Alaska Living people University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty Stony Brook University faculty People associated with the American Museum of Natural History American women anthropologists American anthropologists American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-writer-stub