book chapter
Notes on the Islands of the Unalaska District
Russian-American Company • St. Petersburg • Published In 1840 • Pages:
By: Innokentii, Saint, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, Rossiisko-amerikanskaia kompaniia, Keen, B., Kardinelowska, Assya.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The standard work on the Aleut by a Russian priest assigned to the Unalaska district of the Aleutian Islands. It is an extremely comprehensive work and covers almost all aspects of Aleut culture. The author was highly respected and revered by the people, and in his many years among them, he had an opportunity to learn their language and their way of life. Some bias exists due to the author's role of priest but by and large, his presentation is excellent. The entire volume is included in the Files with the exception of the few sections which deal exclusively with animal life (pp. 349-361; pp. 365-383; pp. 389-394; a set of tables in the unpaginated section at the end of the book. Veniaminov's report on the Aleutian Islands contains three separately paginated volumes. Volume I deals primarily with geography and at the time of the reproduction of Volume II, it had not been translated for the Files. Volume III deals with the Athin Aleuts and is included in the Files as source 65.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1823-1834
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1823-1834
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Unalaska Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ivan Evsieevich Popov Veniaminov
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: [Zapiski ob ostravakh Unalashkinskago otdiela]
- Parts of this document were translated for the Cross Cultural Survey by B. Keen
- Omitted sections were translated for HRAF by Assya Kardinelowska
- Pages dealing with Inner Mongolia have been labelled /Communist Period/.
- Veniaminov's mission was on Unalaska Island where he spent most of his time observing Aleut life. However he did travel to nearby islands and the Alaskan pennisula, and makes references to Aleut living on the Pribilof Islands, and the islands of Four Mountains, Unimak, Amak, and Umnak; all in the eastern Aleutian district. His history of the missions includes the Alaskan penninsula and Kodiak Island. (I.S., 2005)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05000433
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts