The Samoyed in their domestic and social life
book chapter 1847 • Islavin, Vladimīr & Wise, Sheldon

Nenets • Asia > North Asia
In spite of the fact that this book was written more than a century ago it contains remarkably correct and shrewd observations on an objective level about the social and economic life of the Samoyeds. Islavin was sent to make these observations as an...

The old Yakut birch-bark yurt
article 1949 • Popov, A. A. & Wise, Sheldon

Yakut • Asia > North Asia
Popov has based his information on the Yakut birch-bark yurt upon his own observations made in the Vilyuysk District in 1924 and upon the collections of the Museum of the Ethnographic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. His work is a...

Customs of the natives of Tobolsk Province
essay 1876 • Samokvasov, D. (Dmitriĭ) & Wise, Sheldon

Nenets • Asia > North Asia
The material in this source was edited by Samokvasov who used information from contemporary [i.e., ca. 1875] writers as well as that obtained about 1823 by a special commission supported by the governor of Siberia in collaboration with the natives. T...

A collection of customary law of the Siberian natives
Book 1876 • Samokvasov, D. IA. & Wise, Sheldon

Yakut • Asia > North Asia
This is a compilation of offenses against the Yakut person and his or her property that are punishable by the society and the sanctions imposed on the offender. This is not a primary source; it appears to be excerpted from legal documents and possibl...

Three years in the Yakut Territory
book chapter 1890 • Priklonskii, V. L. & Wise, Sheldon

Chukchee • Asia > North Asia
The information here, written by an excellent ethnographer, is actually a brief culture summary of this group....