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Family life of the Dolgani peoplearticle 1946 • Popov, A. A. & Bromwich, Leo
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This is a monograph on the family cycle of the Dolgani, who are a Yakut-speaking people living northwest of Yakutskaya in the neighboring Taymyr OKRUG. The Dolgani are reindeer herders, a way of life heavily influenced by the Evenk. The monograph des...The clan composition and the distribution of the Enetsarticle 1946 • Dolgikh, Boris Osipovich & Bromwich, Leo
Samoyed • Asia > North Asia
This is an important paper concerning the ethnic and social history, ethnic relations, tribal composition, and contemporary social organization of the Enets, one of the Samoyed “tribal” groups. The author attempts to trace the origins, territorial di...The forest Nenetsarticle 1936 • Verbov, G. D. & Bromwich, Leo
Nenets • Asia > North Asia
Acting on the instructions of the Committee for the New Alphabets of the People of the North and the Scientific Investigation Association of the Institute of the People of the North, the author visited a group of the Forest Nenets on the northern tri...A year in the life of an Anadyr-Chukchee reindeer raiserarticle 1928 • Orlovskii, P. N. & Bromwich, Leo
Chukchee • Asia > North Asia
This is a study of the Anadyr-Chukchee reindeer economy and contains valuable information on the details of reindeer raising, such as slaughtering techniques, castration of male animals, sorting of the herd, grazing, and the diseases to which the rei...Anthropological research on Kamchatkaarticle 1949 • Debets, G. F. & Bromwich, Leo
Chukchee • Asia > North Asia
In this article the author attempts to solve the problem of the genesis of the Reindeer Chukchee. In trying to assign them to definite anthropological types he compares the physical characteristics of the Chukchee with those of the Koryak, Kamchadal,...The ornamentation of the Selkuparticle 1950 • Prokofʹeva, E. D. (Ekaterina Dmitrievna) & Bromwich, Leo
Samoyed • Asia > North Asia
This article compares the bank ornamentation of the three groups of Selkup: the Taz, Baishensk, and Narym. The author states which objects are decorated, how some of these objects are made, the different types of designs used, and the methods used fo...The Samoyed of Mezenarticle 1855 • Innokentiĭ, Saint, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna & Bromwich, Leo
Nenets • Asia > North Asia
This source was written by the head of a missionary expedition to the Samoyed of the Mezen District of Archangel Province. It provides geographical, historical, and religious data on the peoples living on the Kanin, Timan, and Bolshezemel tundras. In...The Gilyak, Orochi, Goldi, Negidal, Ainubook chapter 1933 • Shternberg, Lev IAkovlevich et al.
Nivkh • Asia > North Asia
Shternberg's work is the most valuable ethnographical account on the Gilyak available. It describes religion, economy, and material culture - the latter somewhat sketchily - as well as changes due to Chinese trading activity and Russian colonisation....