Field, William W., 1917-1993.
Biographical notes:
William W. Field and Frederick C. Cross, Jr., graduated from Yale University in 1940. Dorothea and Alexander Leighton, Cross's sister and brother-in-law, both physicians and anthropologists from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, invited Field and Cross to spend the summer of 1940 with them in Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, where they were studying Eskimo culture. William W. Field died in 1993.
From the description of A journal : in which is described a journey to St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, during July and August 1940, including excerpts from a diary kept that summer, photographs, and Eskimo drawings and descriptions of daily life : New Haven, Connecticut / written by William W. Field, M. D., 1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148401
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Subjects:
- Eskimos
- Eskimos
- Yuit Eskimos
- Yuit Eskimos
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- Alaska--Gambell (as recorded)
- Alaska--Gambell--Pictorial works (as recorded)
- Gambell (Alaska) (as recorded)
- Alaska (as recorded)
