Jesup North Pacific Expedition
The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) was a major anthropological research expedition in the North Pacific to Siberia , Alaska and the northwest coast of Canada . The purpose of the expedition was to explore the relationships between the peoples on both sides of the Bering Strait . The expedition was sponsored by the industrialist and philanthropist Morris Jesup (who was among other things president of the American Museum of Natural History ) and planned and led by Franz Boas . The participants consisted of a number of important representatives of American and Russian anthropology , and the expedition resulted in a number of important ethnographies , as well as valuable collections of artifacts and photographs.
Field research sites
The ethnic groups examined by members of the expedition include:
- Ainu
- Chilcotin ( British Columbia )
- Chukchi (Chukchee)
- Ewenen ( Lamuten )
- Evenken (Tungus Mountains)
- Haida
- Heiltsuk ( Bella Bella )
- Itelmenen ( Kamchadal )
- Kwakwaka'wakw ( Kwakiutl )
- St'at'imc (British Columbia)
- Nlaka'pamux (British Columbia)
- Syilx (British Columbia)
Official publications
Much of the scientific results of the research expedition were presented in a special series, the Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1898-1903 [and] Leiden: EJ Brill; New York: GE Stechert, 1905-1930 ) released. The titles of these publications give a good impression of the enormous scope of this expedition:
Band u. Subband | title | author | year |
---|---|---|---|
v. 1, pt. 1 | Facial paintings of the Indians of northern British Columbia | Franz Boas | 1898 |
v. 1, pt. 2 | The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians | Franz Boas | 1898 |
v. 1, pt. 3 | Archeology of Lytton, British Columbia | Harlan Ingersoll Smith | 1899 |
v. 1, pt. 4 | The Thompson Indians of British Columbia | James Teit ; edited by Franz Boas | 1900 |
v. 1, pt. 5 | Basketry designs of the Salish Indians | Livingston Farrand | 1900 |
v. 1, pt. 6 | Archeology of the Thompson River Region, British Columbia | Harlan Ingersoll Smith | 1900 |
v. 2, pt. 1 | Traditions of the Chilcotin Indians | Livingston Farrand | 1900 |
v. 2, pt. 2 | Cairns of British Columbia and Washington | Harlan Ingersoll Smith and Gerard Fowke | 1901 |
v. 2, pt. 3 | Traditions of the Quinault Indians | Livingston Farrand , supported by WS Kahnweiler | 1902 |
v. 2, pt. 4 | Shell heaps of the lower Fraser River, British Columbia | Harlan Ingersoll Smith | 1903 |
v. 2, pt. 5 | The Lillooet Indians | James Alexander Teit | 1906 |
v. 2, pt. 6 | Archeology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound | Harlan Ingersoll Smith | 1907 |
v. 2, pt. 7 | The Shuswap | James Alexander Teit | 1909 |
v. 3 | Kwakiutl texts | Franz Boas and George Hunt | 1905 |
v. 4th | The decorative art of the Amur tribes | Berthold Laufer | 1902 |
v. 5, pt. 1 | Contributions to the ethnology of the Haida | John R. Swanton | 1905 |
v. 5, pt. 2 | The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island | Franz Boas | 1909 |
v. 6th | The Koryaks | Waldemar Jochelson | 1908 |
v. 7th | The Chukchee | Waldemar Bogoras | 1904-1909 |
v. 8, pt. 1 | Chukchee mythology | Waldemar Bogoras | 1910 |
v. 8, pt. 2 | Mythology of the Thompson Indians | James Alexander Teit | 1912 |
v. 8, pt. 3 | The Eskimo of Siberia | Waldemar Bogoras | 1913 |
v. 9 | The Yukaghir and Yukaghirized Tungus | Waldemar Jochelson | 1926 |
v. 10, pt. 1 | Kwakiutl texts, second series | Franz Boas and George Hunt | 1906 |
v. 10, pt. 2 | Haida texts, Masset dialect | John R. Swanton | 1908 |
v. 11 | Craniology of the North Pacific Coast | Bruno Oetteking | 1930 |
[v. 12] | Ethnographical album of the North Pacific coasts of America and Asia | 1900 |
Other results of the expedition were published separately. Waldemar Bogoras ' grammar of the Chukchi , Koryak and Itelmen languages (misleadingly titled Chukchee ) was postponed until the beginning of the First World War and the Russian Revolution . It was eventually published (heavily edited by Boas ) in the Handbook of American Indian Languages .
Leading the expedition
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Field researcher in Russia
- Berthold Laufer
- Gerard Fowke , an archaeologist
- Waldemar Bogoras
- Dina Jochelson-Brodskaja
- Waldemar Jochelson
Field researcher in America
Exhibitions
- In 1988 a research exhibition Crossroads of Continents was held based on the Jesup North Pacific Expedition.
- In 1997 the American Museum of Natural History had a photography exhibition from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition entitled Drawing Shadows to Stone
Web links
- Photographs of the expedition (American Museum of Natural History)
- Biographical information about the individual members of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ( Memento of March 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (American Museum of Natural History)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Laurel Kendall, Barbara Mathe, Thomas Ross Miller: Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897–1902 . 1997, ISBN 0-295-97647-0 .
- ^ WW Fitzhugh, A. Crowell: Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska . Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, ISBN 0-87474-442-3 .