The Tlingits are a tribe of Indians of America, the most northern of the tribes of the big Coasts of the North-west, that once lived in numerous villages on the territory that is extended actually by the Prince William Sound to the Alaska Panhandle. They lived in the big houses in wood rectangular, decorated and painted; they fished with big canoes dug in the trunks of the trees; you/they offered potlalches on the occasion of the death and of the tomb of important characters and they made the war to capture slaves and necessary loots for the donations from to effect during the potlalcheses. The sea furnished the necessary one almost all to them for their diet. The Tlingits were big sculptors and carvers of totemic poles, masks, ceremony harness bells rattle, cups and painted boxes. Their women plotted the famous covers Chilkat and they wove beautiful motley baskets. Their attire was decorated highly, often covered of images of eagles and other animals, whose profile was gotten through an embroidery of round pieces of raw madreperla or buttons acquired by the white. The women brought ornaments in the inferior lip, the so-called labretses. The Tlingits were harshly essays and exploited by the Russian merchants of furs. Today around 250 Tlingits you/they live in Craig on the island Prince of Weles, in Alaska.
