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Author: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur Title: The Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report Year: 1919 Publisher: New York: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (Vol. XIV) Pages: 420 Source: American Museum of Natural History Description: The scientific report of the Stefansson-Anderson Expedition of 1908-1912 to the American Museum of Natural History. "In 1908 the American Museum of Natural History organized an expedition to the Arctic under the leadership of Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Rudolph M. Anderson. The object of this enterprise was to make anthropological and zoological studies on the coast between the Mackenzie River and Hudson Bay and on the adjacent islands. The expedition is to be known as the Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. The Plan of the leaders was to travel by land and water with a party of Eskimo and to depend entirely upon their own resources as to food and clothing … "The accompanying volume deals exclusively with observations upon the Eskimo, past and present. As previously stated, Mr. Stefansson gave his attention to geographical exploration and the study of the Eskimo, while Dr. Anderson pursued zoological and geological investigations, the results of which will be published separately. "Both zoologically and anthropologically the expedition was successful, but it is only with the later that we have to deal here. The region between Cape Bathurst and King William Island was formerly so little known that one could do no more than conjecture as to what groups of Eskimo lived therein" (from introduction, Clark Wissler, 1919:v). External Link | Download PDF (55.8 MB)
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