THE POLAR AND TROPICAL WORLDS
1871. 811 pages 194 engravings. Embossed leather cover, worn; spine reinforced; lacks title page and table of contents. "Polar" refers to all Arctic lands and their peoples. More
Eskimo, Siberian and Arctic Art
ARKTISKE SKINDDGRAGTER. I Evrasien og Amerika. En Etnografiske Studie
Copenhagen: 1914. [8], 255 pages (some uncut) of text containing 3 figures, plus 118 drawings of Arctic skin and leather clothing on two fold-out pages. More
THE "INVITING-IN" FEAST OF THE ALASKAN ESKIMO
Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey, Memoir 45, No. 3, Anthropological Series: 1913. 46 pages, 13 full-page photographs--of wooden masks--each with a tissue guard. In January of each year, after rites that were held in November and December, the Unaligmiut Eskimo of St. Michael observed the "Inviting-In" feast, one of..... More
NOTES ON KONIAG MATERIAL CULTURE
Anthro. Papers of the Univ. of Alaska, Vol. 1, No. 1: n.d. Pp. 11-24, 3 pages of photographs of artifacts, 2 figures. More
ESKIMO ARTISTS. Fieldwork in Alaska, June 1936 until April, 1937
Stuttgart, 1938: Kassel, 1953 (enlarged ed.); Zurich, 1987. 83 pages, 86 photographs, 17 drawings, 1 map. Hard board cover. In 1936 ethnographer Hans Himmelbeber went to Alaska to do fieldwork among the Eskimos of the Kuskowim river and among the Nunivak, in each case studying a culture that was shortly..... More
ESKIMO ARTISTS. Fieldwork in Alaska, June 1936 until April, 1937
University of Alaska Press, 1993. 83 pages, 86 photographs, 17 drawings, 1 map. Soft cover. In 1936 ethnographer Hans Himmelbeber went to Alaska to do fieldwork among the Eskimos of the Kuskowim river and among the Nunivak, in each case studying a culture that was shortly to change forever, but..... More
THE KASKA INDIANS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION
YALE UNIVERSITY, Publications In Anthropology, No. 51: 1954. 163 pages, 6 figures. More
GEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND OF THE IYATAYETARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, CAPE DENBIGH, ALASKA
SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, Vol. 121, No. 11: 1953. 33 pages (some uncut) containing 7 figures, plus 4 pages of photographs. More
ALASKA DIARY, 1926-1931
Lancaster: 1943. xv, 414 pages, 227 photographs, 5 maps. Cloth cover. More
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA
extract from Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report Number 46, 1973, 1981 (reprint). Pp. 21-374 (some uncut) containing 29 figures, plus 61 pages of photographs. More
SINEWS OF SURVIVAL. The Living Legend of Inuit Clothing
Vancouver: 1997. xiv, 274 pages, 232 photographs, 20 drawings, 13 maps. Cloth cover. The first work to bring together information on circumpolar clothing, this volume will remain an indispensable reference source on the clothing of the Canadian Inuit and the clothing from other areas of the circumpolar world--northeastern Siberia, Alaska..... More
ALASKAN VOYAGE. 1881-1883, An Expedition to the Northweest Coast of America
Chicago: 1977, 1983. 280 pages 60 figures containing drawings of about 400 objects. More
INVESTIGATIONS IN SOUTHWEST YUKON. Numbers 1 and 2
Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, Papers, Vol. 6. Andover: 1964. 488 pages, 94 figures, 1 fold-out map. More
LOOKING NORTH. Art From the University of Alaska Museum
Seattle: 1998. 206 pages, 130 color and 21 b/w photographs, 2 maps. The most treasured works from the ethnology, archaeology, and fine arts collections of the University of Alaska Museum are presented in this volume. Prehistoric and historic artifacts, 19th and 20th century works by Eskimo, Athapaskan, and Northwest Coast..... More
LOOKING NORTH. Art From the University of Alaska Museum
Seattle: 1998. 206 pages, 130 color and 21 b/w photographs, 2 maps. Cloth cover. The most treasured works from the ethnology, archaeology, and fine arts collections of the University of Alaska Museum are presented in this volume. Prehistoric and historic artifacts, 19th and 20th century works by Eskimo, Athapaskan, and..... More
PROBLEMS OF POLAR RESEARCH, A Series of Papers
Amer. Geographical Society, Special Pub. No. 7: 1928. 479 pages (31 papers) approximately 80 photographs, drawings, maps and charts. Cloth cover (rubbed). More
THE U.S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, A Personal Narrative
New York: 1854. xi, 552 pages, approximately 130 illustrations, several maps and charts. Cloth cover, sunned, mild foxing and browning, chip atop spine, text tight and sound. Sabin 36998. More
IN THE LAND OF THE REINDEER
Leningrad: 1974. Applied Art in the North of the Soviet Union. 19 pages of text (in Russian) containing 10 drawings and 2 photographs (and 36 small b/w photographs), followed by 77 pages of color photographs of artifacts of the peoples of the (then) Soviet Far North--with captions in English and..... More
HANDWERK DER SHEFFERVILLE-NASKAPI (KANADA). Ausstellung des Stammes der Naskapi im Museum fur Volkerkunde der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1979. 28 pages, 16 pages of photographs of harpoons, 1 map. More
OPISANIE ZEMLI KAMCHATIKI
Moscow: 1949. (Descriptions of the Land Kamchatka) (two volumes in one). 841 pages. Illustrations, portrait, facsimiles, maps (some fold-out). Cloth cover. Reprint of 1755 work regarding the author's role in Bering's second expediton. Includes an engraving that is the earlies pictorial representation of a native inhabitant of Alaska. More
THE ESKIMO OF SMITH SOUND
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Bulletin, Vol. XII: 1899. Pp. 265-327 (containing 54 figures--all of objects of material culture), plus 4 pages of plates. Some pages uncut, spine reinforced. More
BERING’S SEARCH FOR THE STRAIT. The First Kamchatka Expedition 1725-1730
1990. (translation of the Russian edition published in 1976): Oregon Historical Society. xxv, 220 pages, 5 photographs, 7 maps in text and maps on endpapers. Cloth cover. More
THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE AMUR TRIBES; Jesup North Pacific Expedition, American Museum of Natural History, Memoirs, Vol. VII, Part I
1902. 86 pages (some uncut) containing 24 figures--drawings of designs and patterns, plus 33 leaves of color and b/w drawings of several hundred objects and design elements. More
Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. I.- THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE AMUR TRIBES.; AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Memoirs, Vol. VII
1902. 86 pages (some uncut) of text containing 21 figures, plus 33 leaves of b/w and color photographs and drawings of several hundred objects and designs. More
BALEEN BASKETRY OF THE NORTH ALASKAN ESKIMO
Barrow: 1983, 1998. xii, 82 pages, 45 photographs, 15 drawings, 1 map. More