book chapter
Prehistoric art of the Aleutian Islands
Fieldiana. Anthropology • 36 (4) • Published In 1948 • Pages: 77-92
By: Quimby, George Irving.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author was Curator of Exhibits, Department of Anthropology of the Chicago Natural History Museum. In this article, he analyses Aleut art on the basis of collections in the Chicago Natural History Museum and the American Museum of Natural History. Subsequent archaeological research has indicated that his assignment of Aleut artifacts to three time periods is incorrect. In processing, the descriptions of specimens have been excerpted but most of the author's interpretations have been excluded. The illustrations were not reproduced nor was the bibliography since all the pertinent sources are include in the HRAF bibliography (use CITATIONS OF DOCUMENTS IN THE HRAF COLLECTION (111) and ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (112).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Representative art
- Visual arts
- 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.
- Museum Curator
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 0000-1740
- 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
- George Irving Quimby
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 50011882
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts/Art--Alaska--Aleutian Islands
- Art, Primitive