essay
The voyage of Gregory Shelekhof, a Russian merchant from Okhotzk, on the eastern ocean, to the coast of America, in the years 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, and his return to Russia: from his own journal
Varieties of literature, from foreign literary journals and original mss. now first published …, [by William Tooke • London • Published In 1795 • Pages: 1-42
By: Shelikhov, G. I. (Grigorii Ivanovich).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a fascinating journal of a voyage of discovery to the Aleutians, Kodiak Island, and the adjacent coast of the mainland. It includes data on the journey by sea to the Alaskan coast, the first contact with the Koniags, Shelekhov's introduction of miscellaneous things to the natives, and a summary of fauna, flora, and miscellaneous customs of the natives.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Geography
- Acculturation and culture contact
- War
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Alutiiq
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Businessperson
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1976 -1977
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1783-1787
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1783-1787
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Koniag Eskimo, Kuktak (i.e., Kodiak Island), Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Grigorii Ivanovich Shelikhov
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 32034594
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koniagmiut Eskimos