Jesup North Pacific Expedition

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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:

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

Waldemar Bogoras and his wife Sofia Bogoras with the collection of the expedition in Novo-Mariinsk , 1901

Field researcher in Russia

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

Commons : Jesup North Pacific expedition  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 .
  2. ^ WW Fitzhugh, A. Crowell: Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska . Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, ISBN 0-87474-442-3 .