book chapter
Report on the population, industries, and resources of Alaska
G.P.O. • 8 • Published In 1884 • Pages: vi, 189
By: Petroff, Ivan, b. 1842.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author was sent to Alaska as a special agent for the United States Census to make a complete study of Alaska and its peoples. This source is his final report. It covers the geography of Alaska, population estimates, the present and potential economic capacity of the area, the history of the territory under Russian domination, and the ethnology of the people. In organizing his material, the author in most cases presents each area as a separate unit. For the purposes of a study of the Aleut, this source is of value primarily for its economic and population data since the material on Aleut ethnology is a direct translation from Veniaminov (1: Veniaminov). Petroff's ethnological observations on the Aleuts as they were living when he saw them are contained in his preliminary report to Congress. (See Petroff, Ivan. Population and Resources of Alaska. House of Representatives, 46th cong. 3rd Sess. Ex. Doc. No. 40. Washington, 1881. For technical reasons this source was not included in the file but the information it contains is included in almost identical form in 3: Elliot). In processing the present source, the following material has been omitted: detailed geographical and historical data which are contained in other sources and tables of economic data such as imports and exports, total number of skins obtained, etc.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Composition of population
- Morbidity
- Marine hunting
- Settlement patterns
- Ownership and control of capital
- Ethnic stratification
- Elementary education
- Religious denominations
- 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- 1880-1881
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1781-1881
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Ivan Petroff
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 07018868
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts