book chapter
The Koniags
Holmberg's ethnographic sketches • 1 • Published In 1985 • Pages: 35-61
By: Holmberg, H. J. (Henrik Johan), Falk, Marvin W., Jaensch, Fritz.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a traditional ethnographer of the Koniag Eskimo of Kodiak Island based on the author's own observations of the people in the mid-ninetenth century, and supplemented by the the accounts of informants, and information appearing in the diary of Davydov, an earlier explorer to the region. Much of the data refer to the material culture and economics of the Koniag, such as physical appearance, clothing, foods, marine hunting and fishing, and house styles, with some limited information on ceremonial feasts, and early contacts and relations with the Russians. Little if any information is provided on social structure and social organization in this work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Annual cycle
- Marine hunting
- Fishing
- Diet
- Normal garb
- Dwellings
- Boats
- External relations
- Organized ceremonial
- Homosexuality
- 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
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca.1850s-1860s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1780s-1860s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Koniag Eskimo, Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Heinrich Johan Holmberg ; edited by Marvin W. Falk ; translated by Fritz Jaensch
- Translation of: [Ethnographische skizzen über die völker des russischen Amerika]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85051785
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koniagmiut Eskimos