Inuit materials, Field notebooks and anthropometric data

Culture:

Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ

Language: English | German | Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian

Date: 1883-1884

Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Nunavut--History | Personal names

Type: Still Image | Text

Genre: Diaries | Drawings | Field notes | Notebooks | Personal names | Shorthand | Vocabularies

Extent: 2 notebooks, 1 folder

Description: The Inuit materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic and ethnographic notes, some in German shorthand, as well as sketches, found in his "Baffinland diary" and "Baffinland notebook" from his first fieldwork trip in 1883-1884. See also his "Inuit Vocabularies and proper names," located in box 3.

Collection: Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data Mss.B.B61.5

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