book chapter
Report on the seal islands of Alaska
Govt. Print. Off. • Washington • Published In 1884 • Pages: 188
By: Elliott, Henry Wood.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A detailed study of the Pribilov or 'Seal' Islands. It includes a detailed analysis of the seal life and other fauna of the area, descriptions of the geography and flora, a history of the Russian American company and the Alaska Commercial Company with detailed tables of the economic aspects of the sealing operations, and descriptions of the life of the local inhabitants. Most of the ethnographic material has been included in a later 'popular' publication of the author (see 3: Elliott) and this later source was included and the present source used only for supplementary material.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marine hunting
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Work in skins
- Settlement patterns
- Medical therapy
- 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.
- 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
- 1877-1874
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1869-1874
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pribilof Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Henry W. Elliott
- This document consists of excerpts
- At head of title: Dept. of the Interior. Census Office
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 49031544
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts