Jesup North Pacific Expedition

Waldemar Bogoras's grammar of Chukchi, Koryak and Itelmen (misleadingly titled just Chukchee) was delayed by the onset of the First World War and Russian Revolution.

He planned the research to address three questions: Boas was an active fieldworker on the northwest coast in the American part of the expedition.

Waldemar Bogoras was an exiled Russian revolutionary; ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork with the Chukchi and Siberian Yupik peoples of the western side of the Bering Strait.

[3] Her 900 anthropological measurements contributed to her doctoral dissertation at the University of Zurich and to her writings about the women of northeastern Siberia.

He studied the Nivkhi, Evenk and Ainu, and published a monograph in the expedition series, The decorative art of the Amur tribes.

Livingston Farrand George Hunt; much info at [1] recorded Kwakiutl texts[8] Smith involved himself in archaeological work, and began by digging in the Thompson River district of British Columbia in 1897.

In successive years, he worked a little farther east, and also around Puget Sound, and down the west coast of the state of Washington.

One small section east of the city of Vancouver was found to reveal traces of a people with a much more highly developed technology than others of the region.

On the map, this section does not look far from the Thompson River district in British Columbia, but Smith found not only their culture, but their skulls were different.

[9] These ancient tribes seemed to have lived, each in its nook of coast or river valley, for unnumbered ages, never going to see what was on the other side of the mountain, each developing its own morsel of civilization in its own way, its life and culture and development modified by the portion of the earth's surface where it sat down, seemingly to stay forever.