Written by Richard D. Feldman, Home before the Raven Caws: The Mystery of a Totem Pole, published by the IHS Press in cooperation with the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
, unravels the mystery of that missing pole from the Brady collection. The old Alaskan pole found its way to Indiana more than a hundred years ago. A new version of the pole stands today at the Eiteljorg.
Feldman is a family physician who has a longtime interest in Native
American religion, art, and culture, having studied with the renowned scholar
Joseph Epes Brown at Indiana University, Bloomington. Feldman was adopted into
the Haida nation by Mary Yeltazie Swanson in 1996. Feldman lectures frequently
on a variety of medical as well as historical topics and has been the subject
of several public television documentaries.
Home before the Raven Caws costs $15.95 and is available from the Indiana Historical Society's Basile History Market.
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Simply that sun.
The largest
sound revives
in the memory
like a gentle
delight in the
heart of a
dream.
Francesco Sinibaldi
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