Klallam ethnography topic of online program

BLYN — David Brownell will present “Klallam Ethnography”: S’Klallam Interviews with Erna Gunther” at 3 p.m. Thursday.

The free, online presentation is sponsored by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library in collaboration with the North Olympic Historical Society.

Brownell, the new executive director of the history center, will discuss the work of University of Washington ethnographer and ethnobotanist Erna Gunther.

Gunther made multiple trips to Jamestown in the 1920s to interview Robert Collier; John and Nora Cook; Mary Hunter-Hall Wood; and Joe, Lilly and Wilson Johnson about the history of the S’Klallam people.

To view the lecture, visit https://us02web.zoom.us then enter meeting ID 864 4871 4613 and passcode 096339.

For more information, call the library at 360-681-4632, email library@jamestowntribe.org or visit https://library.jamestowntribe.org.

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