book chapter
Pottery from the Aleutian Islands
Fieldiana. Anthropology • 36 (1) • Published In 1945 • Pages: 13
By: Quimby, George Irving.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A description of samples of Aleutian pottery discovered by Lt. Alvin Cahn, U.S.N.R. on Amaknak Island. Lt. Cahn salvaged this material when the site was being bulldozed for military construction. Insofar as it describes the pottery specimens, this source is of some value but no records were kept when the material was excavated and the conclusions based on these specimens are not particularly good. Only a small portion of this source is included. The summary of the composition and general character of the pottery was excerpted but detailed descriptions of the individual items, the author's comparative analysis, the illustrations, and the bibliography are not included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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
- 1942-1944
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- prehistoric period
- 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
- George Irving Quimby
- This document consists of excerpts
- Cahn was stationed at Dutch Harbor, Amaknak Island, Alaska, from 1942 to 1945. He collected archaeological artifacts from excavated foxholes and sent his collections to the Field Museum in Chicago until 1944, when the Museum asked Cahn to discontinue shipments. Afterwards, Cahn shipped his collections to the Museum of Natural History, New York. In 1945, the Museum made him a Field Associate and sponsored an expedition later that year.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 06020329
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts