Molly Lee. This book is an engaging exploration of the role of dolls and doll making in Alaska Native cultures. From ancient ivory to the thriving tourist market, dolls & human figurines have played integral parts in the ritual, economic, & social lives of Native Alaskans. This book explores the ethnographic literature, twentieth-century oral histories, & photographic documentation of dolls & the doll making process. Contemporary doll makers explain how they learned to make dolls & what doll making means to them. 71 pages, 2006