One of the most precious publications by S. A. Ratner-Shternberg on the history of religion was her article from 1927: ‘Museum materials of the Tlinkit Shamanism’, where she described exhibits of the museum collections acquired by travelers: Doroshin, Lisyansky, Voznesensky, and Chudnovsky. On the base of those materials she reconstructed the general picture of the worldview of Tlinkits. The author described the usage of objects of the collection, their symbolical and semantic meaning. She compared her data with information on American, Siberian, and Paleoasian Shamanism, finding obvious similarity and noteworthy differences. Thus, the author set and tried to solve important questions of parallelism and diffusion of various human cultures.