Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head

by Ann Fienup-Riordan

Norwegian adventurer Johan Adrian Jacobsen collected more than two thousand Yup'ik objects during his travels in Alaska in 1882 and 1883. Now housed in the Berlin Ethnological Museum, the Jacobsen collection remains one of the earliest and largest from Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. When Ann Fienup-Riordan first saw the collection being unpacked in 1994, she was "stunned to find this extraordinary Yup'ik collection, with accession records still...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295984643
• ISBN13: 9780295984643
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 12.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher