The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898
Title:
The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898
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by Dorothy Jean Ray.
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Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1975.
Physical Description:
xvi, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780295954356
Abstract:
A description and analysis of the changes that took place in the culture of the area from 1650 to 1898 from the first reports received in Siberia about Alaskan Eskimos to the time of the gold rush.
Local Note:
One of the Anchorage Museum of History and Art's copies of this title is owned by the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center and was donated by James Van Stone.
Copy four signed by author.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-282) and index.
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Content Time Period:
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Contents:
Bering Strait Region -- Siberian information about Alaska, 1650-1732 -- Information about the Alaskan side of Bering Strait, 1732-89 -- Explorations of the late eighteenth century: James Cook, Ivan Kobelev, and Joseph Billings -- Kotzebue at Shishmaref Inlet and Goodhope Bay, 1816 -- Russian explorations, 1820-22 -- Beechey's expedition of 1826 and 1827 -- Bering Strait culture, 1778-1833 -- Tribes of Bering Strait -- Russians move north and the malemiut move south -- Search for Sir John Franklin at Bering Strait -- Western Union Telegraph expedition, 1865-67 -- Bering Strait culture, 1833-67 -- American jurisdiction and the Bering Strait Eskimo's -- Artifacts, whaling, and mining -- Schools and mission -- Eskimos and domesticated reindeer -- Bering Strait culture, 1867-98 -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.