Charles Hughes Collection, 1940-1984.

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Charles Hughes Collection, 1940-1984.

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The Charles Hughes Collection consists of his field notes and files from his anthropological research on St. Lawrence Island as well as a personal narrative of William W. Field, M.D. describing his experiences on St. Lawrence Island. Observations of both include descriptions of local customs as well as linguistic, dietary, medical, subsistence, kinship, and climate information from the area. This collection also includes a copy of the Hotovitzsky translation of L.A. Zagoskin's travels in Russian America, letters, reprints, and a translation of Fainberg's "On the question of the Eskimo kinship system" by Charles Hughes. It also contains drawings by Florence Napaaq Malewotkuk, a transcription of the diaries (1904-1911) of Edgar O. Campbell, the U.S. Commissioner stationed at St. Lawrence Island, as well as transcripts of the diaries of others stationed on the island in the early 1900's. There collection also includes photocopies of Hughes's field books from the University of Utah.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7293463

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Zagoskin, Lavr. Al. (Laurentii Alekseevich), 1808-1890.

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Field, William W.

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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. Law...

Hughes, Charles C. (Charles Campbell)

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Hughes received an A.B. from Harvard in 1951 and received his Ph. D. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1958. He completed postgraduate research in Nigeria and Nova Scotia, served as director of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University and in 1973 accepted a position at the University of Utah. From the description of The Charles C. Hughes papers. 1954-1957. (University of Utah). WorldCat record id: 60843422 ...