book chapter
The cruise of the Corwin: journal of the Arctic expedition of 1881 in search of De Long and the Jeanette
Houghton Mifflin co. • Boston • Published In 1917 • Pages:
By: Muir, John, Badè, William Frederic.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Corwin expedition was organized to explore the Arctic Ocean and to search for the lost ship Jeannette. Muir joined the expedition to study glaciation in the area. This volume is a collection of his letters, edited by William F. Badè. Muir spent about two weeks in the Aleutians at Unalaska and St. Paul, and Chapters I and II are his letters written from there. In addition to the material on the local inhabitants, he discusses the geography of the area in detail. The geographical data, however, is not included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Alcoholic beverages
- Dwellings
- 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.
- Natural Scientist
- Physical Scientist
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- 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
- 1881
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1881
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pribilof and Unalaska Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by John Muir, ed. by William Frederic Badè
- Appendix: I. The glaciation of the Arctic and subarctic regions visited during the cruise; II. Botanical notes: p. [233]-[272]
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17031765
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts