Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition
Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442
Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition is the report written by John Murdoch, naturalist of the United States expedition that spent 1881 to 1883 at Point Barrow, on the northern tip of Alaska, as part of the International Polar Year. Published in 1892 by the Bureau of Ethnology, it describes the Iñupiat people of the region in careful detail: their appearance and character, winter houses, snow houses and tents, food and cooking, hunting and fishing gear, boats and sledges, clothing, tools and games. Hundreds of objects collected by the expedition are described and illustrated, making it a lasting record of Arctic life before rapid change. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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