book chapter

Narrative of an expedition to the polar sea, in the years 1820, 1821, 1822, & 1823

Harper and BrothersNew YorkPublished In 1842 • Pages:

By: Wrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich, baron, Sabine, Edward.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Wrangell led an expedition under the orders from the Russian Admiralty department which was to make an accurate survey of the northwest coast of Siberia. He gives a good summary of the Yakut culture, with particular emphasis upon their material culture. Information was obtained from living among the scattered tribes of Yakuts around a broad territory and by talking to these people about their customs and history. Although it is sketchily treated, the material on the different characteristics of the Yakut of the Aniuj as compared to those around Werchojansk and elsewhere is of some interest. The descriptive material on this tribe is fairly accurate although it has been dealt with in greater detail elsewhere.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Culture summary
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Yakut
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1997
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Asia
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
North Asia
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.
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
RCH ; 1950-1956
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1820-23
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1820-1823
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
NotesAdditional notes
Ferdinand Wrangell
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LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
31012905
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Yakut (Turkic people)