CUSTOMS AND ARTTLINGIT

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CUSTOMS AND ART TLINGIT

• By Keenan

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Customs

• Totem pole
• Made totem poles to celebrate birth, make fun of
  someone or honor the dead
• Potlatches feasts

http//www.native-languages.org/totem.htm
http//www.yfnta.org/todo/todo.htm
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ART

• Canoes can hold up to 50 people
• Cradleboards used to hold babies
• Baskets

http//www.downtoearthbysummer.com/homefurnishaccs
.htm
http//www.vancouvernatureadventures.com/corporate
events.htm
http//powerfulimages.ed-resources.net/exhibit/cbo
ards.htm
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bibliography

• C 1996 scholastic inc published by scholastic inc
  James Ciment
• Kids info bits Chandonett, Ann skipping stones
  Nov-Dec 1997
• 1998-2007 big orrin/ tlingit kids.httm
• Native languages of the Americas website
• U.S social studies book