The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975. Quarto, red hardcover, spine embossed with silver text, xvi, 306 pp., eight black-and-white plates, five maps included, one appendix included. Spine ends slightly bumped, pale pen mark on front cover, very light spotting on top edge of text block; otherwise a near-fine copy. First edition. An in-depth analysis of the changes that took place in the culture of the Bering Strait from 1650 to 1898, from the first reports received in Siberia about Alaskan Eskimos to the time of the gold rush. In the writing of this work, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray combined information gathered from Russian and American archival documents; explorer, traveller, teacher and missionary writings; and her own field research into the history of the peoples, including their native oral traditions, to produce an in-depth study of Bering Strait culture following white contact. Item #4655
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