Iñupiat materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Iñupiat includes: Инупиаты, Iñupiaq
Language: Chukchi | English | Inupiatun, North Alaskan | Yupik, Central Siberian
Date: 1899; 1905; 1935
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Francis, Alfred G.
Subject: Ethnography | Kinship | Linguistics | Social life and customs | Alaska--History
Type: Still Image | Text
Genre: Drawings | Vocabularies
Extent: 50 pages; 18 drawings
Description: The Iñupiat materials in the ACLS collection consist of three items in the "Eskimo" section of the finding aid. Boas' "Comparative word list of Alaskan Eskimo [Iñupiat], Siberian Eskimo [Yupik], and Chukchee" (item E1.1) includes vocabulary from Utqiagvik ("Point Barrow") and the Seward Peninsula. Alfred Francis' "Kungmit Eskimo vocabulary" (item E1.2) consists of an approximately 300-word list recorded at Kotzebue, including terms for animals, kinship, parts of the body, natural objects, and other terms. Finally, Boas' "Drawings for 'Property Marks of Alaskan Eskimo'" (item E1a.5) includes drawing from which illustrations for Boas' 1899 article on this topic were made.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c