Jesup North Pacific Expedition

The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) was an important anthropological research expedition to the North Pacific to Siberia, Alaska and the Northwest Coast of Canada. The purpose of the expedition was to explore the relations between the peoples on both sides of the Bering Strait. The expedition was sponsored by the industrialist and philanthropist Morris Jesup (who was, among others, President of the American Museum of Natural History ) and planned and conducted by Franz Boas. The participants consisted of a number of important representatives of the American and Russian anthropology, and the expedition had a number of important ethnographies on the outcome, as well as valuable collections of artifacts and photographs.

Sites of fieldwork

The ethnic groups that have been studied by members of the expedition include:

  • Ainu
  • Chilcotin (British Columbia)
  • Chukchi ( Chukchee )
  • Evens ( Lamuts )
  • Evenks ( Tungus )
  • Haida
  • Heiltsuk (Bella Bella)
  • Itelmens ( Kamchadal )
  • Kwakwaka'wakw ( Kwakiutl )
  • St'at'imc (British Columbia)
  • Nlaka'pamux (British Columbia)
  • Syilx (British Columbia)

Official Publications

Many of the scientific results of the research expedition were in a special series, the Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1898-1903 [ and ] Leiden: EJ Brill, New York: GE Stechert, 1905-1930 ) published. The titles of these publications give a good idea of ​​the immensity of this expedition:

Other results of the expedition was published separately. Waldemar Bogoras ' grammar of the languages ​​of the Chukchi, Koryak and Itelmens ( misleading dubbed with Chukchee ) has been postponed until the beginning of World War I and the Russian Revolution. It was finally published (heavily edited by Boas ), Handbook of American Indian Languages ​​.

Leadership of the expedition

  • Franz Boas
  • Morris Jesup

Field researchers in Russia

  • Gerard Fowke, an archaeologist
  • Waldemar Bogoras
  • Dina Brodsky
  • Waldemar Jochelson ( with his wife Dina Jochelson - Brodskaya )

Field researchers in America

  • Livingston Farrand
  • George Hunt
  • Harlan Smith
  • John Swanton
  • James Teit
  • Bruno Oetteking
Ainu people Tsilhqot'in Haida people Kwakiutl First Nation Berthold Laufer Koryaks Morris Ketchum Jesup
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