| Included Work | Antropova, Valentina Vasilʹevna. Aleuts. |
| Included Work | Bank, Ted. Botanical and ethnological studies in the Aleutian Islands. II, Health and medical lore of the Aleuts. |
| Included Work | Berreman, Gerald D. (Gerald Duane), 1930-2013. Effects of a technological change in an Aleutian village. |
| Included Work | Jones, Dorothy Miriam, 1923- Study of social and economic problems in Unalaska, an Aleut village. |
| Included Work | Jones, Dorothy Miriam, 1923- Aleuts in transition, a comparison of two villages. |
| Included Work | Lantis, Margaret, 1906-2006. Aleut social system, 1750 to 1810, from early historical sources. |
| Included Work | Lantis, Margaret, 1906-2006. Aleut. |
| Included Work | Laughlin, William S. Aleuts, survivors of the Bering Land Bridge. |
| Included Work | Petrivelli, Patricia J. Aleutian-Pribilof Islands region. |
| Included Work | Veltre, Douglas W. Northern fur seal. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. North America. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
A medical survey of the Aleutian Islands (1948) / Fred Alexander -- The Aleuts / V.V. Antropova -- Health and medical lore of the Aleuts / Theodore P. Bank, II -- Aleut dialects of Atka and Attu / Knut Bergsland -- Effects of a technological change in an Aleutian village / Gerald D. Berreman -- Blood-group determinations upon the bones of thirty Aleutian mummies / P.B. Candela -- Animal life of the Aleutian Islands / Austin Hobart Clark -- The islands and their people / Henry Bascom Collins -- A voyage to the Pacific ocean / James Cook -- Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America / William Coxe -- On the remains of later pre-historic man obtained from caves in the Catherina Archipelago, Alaska Territory, and especially from the caves of the Aleutian Islands / William Healey Dall -- Our Arctic province, Alaska and the Seal Islands ; Report on the Seal Islands of Alaska / Henry Wood Elliott -- Some textile specimens from the Aleutian Islands / Paul Gebhard -- The Aleut language / Richard Henry Geoghegan -- Eskimo and Aleut stories from Alaska / Frank Alfred Golder -- Aconite poison whaling in Asia and America / Robert Fleming Heizer -- The Aleutian and Commander islands and their inhabitants / Ales Hrdlicka -- Notes on the Athin Aleuts and the Koloshi ; Notes on the Islands of the Unalaska District / Innokentii, Saint, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna -- Aleut hunting and headgear and its ornamentation / S.V. Ivanov -- History, ethnology, and anthropology of the Aleut ; Archaeological investigations in the Aleutian Islands ; People of the foggy sea ; Scientific results of the ethnological section of the Riabouschinsky Expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society to the Aleutian Islands and Kamchatka / Waldemar Jochelson -- A study of social and economic problems in Unalaska, an Aleut village ; Aleuts in transition / Dorothy M. Jones -- An Aleutian basket / Mary Lois Kissell -- Voyages and travels in various parts of the world, during the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807 / G.H. von Langsdorff -- The Aleut social system: 1750 to 1810, from early historical sources ; Aleut / Margaret Lantis -- The physical anthropology of three Aleut populations: Attu, Atka, and Nikolski ; Aleuts, survivors of the Bering Land Bridge / William S. Laughlin -- Two Aleut tales / T.I. Lavrischeff -- Human anatomical terms among the Aleutian Islanders / Gordon H. Marsh -- Aboriginal American basketry ; Aboriginal American harpoons ; Throwing-sticks in the National Museum / Otis Tufton Mason -- The cruise of the Corwin / John Muir -- Back to the smoky sea / Nutchuk -- Bering's successors, 1745-1780 / Peter Simon Pallas -- The Aleutian-Pribilof Islands region / Patricia Petrivelli -- Report on the population, industries, and resources of Alaska ; The limit of the Innuit tribes on the Alaska coast / Ivan Petroff -- Prehistoric art of the Aleutian Islands ; Toggle harpoon heads from the Aleutian Islands ; Pottery from the Aleutian Islands ; Aleutian islanders / George Irving Quimby -- Stories, myths and superstitions of Fox Island Aleut children ; Aleut semaphore signals / Jay Ellis Ransom -- Account of a voyage of discovery to the north-east of Siberia, the frozen ocean, and the north-east sea: volume II / Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev -- An account of a geographical ... expedition to ... Russia / Martin Sauer -- Ethnological notes on the Aleuts ; The girls' puberty ceremony at Umnak, Aleutian Islands ; They know their bones ; The outside man and his relation to Aleut culture / Charles I. Shade -- Culture summary, Aleut / Douglas W. Veltre and Ian Skoggard -- The northern fur seal / Douglas W. Veltre and Mary J. Veltre -- Plants on the Aleutian Islands / Egbert H. Walker -- An Aleutian burial / Edward Moffat Weyer -- Health and growth of Aleut children / Edwin Wilde -- Aleutian manuscript collection / Avrahm Yarmolinsky. |
| Abstract |
At the time of initial Russian contact in 1741, Aleuts occupied all the Aleutian Islands west to Attu Island, the western tip of the Alaska Peninsula, and the Shumagin Islands south of the Alaska Peninsula. In the 1990s, some thirteen Aleut villages remain, mostly in the Pribilofs and eastern Aleutians. The Aleut collection contains 44 documents published between 1785 and 1992 that cover the period from 1741, when the Russian explorer Bering discovered the Aleutians, to 1990. The accounts by and of early English, German, and Russian explorers include Cook, Sauer, Coxe, Sarychev, Langsdorf, and Pallas. The last source contains a good review of this literature. The priest Veniaminov wrote the classic ethnography of the Aleut, referred to again and again in the literature. An interest in the origins and physical anthropology of the Aleut is found in Dall, Jochelson (1925), Candella, Hrdlicka, and Laughlin (1949). The early American period (1867-1940) produced several expeditionary reports and cultural overviews of the region (Petroff, 1884; Elliot, 1886 and 1880; Jochelson, 1913; Muir, and Jochelson, 1928). More focused work included studies of hunting and head gear, basketry, folklore, and burials. The later American period (1940-1960) saw renewed fieldwork activity and studies due to the importance of the islands in the Second World War and later Cold War period. Cultural overviews are found in Quimby (1944), Collins, and Shade (1949). More specific topics examined are textiles, semaphore signals, whale poison, language, folklore, animal and plant life, pottery, harpoons, a life history, attitudes towards strangers, prehistoric art, health, anatomical terms, girl's puberty ceremony, medical lore, and social effects of technological change. In the recent period (1960-1990), one finds two more overviews (Antropova, 1964 and Lantis 1984), two studies of social change and adaptation by Jones, and an economic study of seal hunting (Veltre 1987). All but ten of the documents in this collection are excerpts. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed June 23, 2008). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2008 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
