book chapter
Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America
Cadell and Davies • London • Published In 1804 • Pages:
By: Coxe, William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a compilation of reports of the voyages of Russian explorers and hunters from 1711 to 1792, based on primary sources, many of them unpublished manuscripts. It contains material on many of the tribes of Siberia and Northwest America, but only the material on the Aleut has been processed. There are many discrepancies between the different reports and, as indicated in other sources, some inaccuracies. This is probably due not only to inaccurate and prejudiced reporting by some of the hunters, but also in a few cases to faulty translation and the conscious effort by the Aleuts to conceal their customs, particularly their religious customs, from the Russians. The period of Aleut culture covered is from the discovery of the Aleutian Islands by Bering in 1741 to the Billings expedition in 1790. The account of Bering's expedition is from Steller's journal and that of the Billings expedition from Sauer's journal. Since both of these sources are included in this collection (See 6: Golder and 16: Sauer), Coxe's translations have not been included. In addition, an account of the merchant Tolstykh's voyage is included in 2: Jochelson and therefore was not included in Coxe. In the period covered by Coxe, Aleut culture was changing as a result of contact with the Russians. An attempt was made to identify each passage as to date and locality.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Instigation of war
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Hunter
- Explorer
- 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
- 1711-1792
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1745-1768
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Coxe
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05040241
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts