THE DOWNFALL OF TEMLAHAM.
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, At St. Martin's House, 1928. First Edition (& 1st printing). Large octavo, original blue cloth lettered in black on spine and upper cover. 253 pp., illustrated with 13 full-page colour plates printed on glossy paper inserted throughout the text by W. Langdon Kihn [4 plates]; A.Y. Jackson [3 plates]; Edwin H. Holgate [4 plates]; Emily Carr [1 plate]; & Annie D. Savage [1 plate]. Ink name on front free endpaper ("K. Segram, West Vancouver, 1940"). A near fine, bright copy, clean and unworn. Item #314382
¶ Historical novel set against the backdrop of the Skeena River Uprising of 1886, interwoven with the Gitksan legend of Temlaham, triggered by the 1886-1889 measles epidemic, and expansion of Euro-caucasian settlement into the British Columbia Interior. Marius Barbeau was a pioneering anthropologist and the founder of professional folklore studies in Canada. He worked at the National Museum (now the Canadian Museum of History) from 1911 until the late 1960s, collecting a vast archive of thousands of traditional songs, texts and artifacts — especially of French Canadian and Aboriginal peoples.
Price (CAD): $125.00