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.

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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.

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Typescript describing Field's experiences in Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, during 1940 Jul-Aug. Most of the text is excerpted from his diary and from interviews of Eskimos regarding their lives and customs conducted by Field, Cross, and Dorothea and Alexander Leighton. Plates include photographs of sketches drawn by Eskimos and photographs taken by Field in 1940.

1 v. (114 p., 16 leaves, [14] p. of plates) ; 29 cm.

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Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007

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Alexander Leighton graduated from Princeton University in 1932, a Master's degree from Cambridge University, and an M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School. During his psychiatric training he was granted a Social Science Research Fellowship, which allowed him to carry out field work among the Navajo under the sponsorship of Columbia University in collaboration with his wife and fellow resident Dorothea Cross Leighton. From the description of Alexander H. and Dorothea Cross Leighton Na...

Cross, Frederick C.

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Leighton, Dorothea Cross, 1908-1992

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Physicians who researched Navajo life and problems. Both born in 1908, Dorothea C. and Alexander H. Leighton received their M.D.s from Johns Hopkins University in 1936. Both were training in psychiatry when they began their study of life problems of Native Americans in 1940. From the description of Dorothea C. Leighton and Alexander H. Leighton collection Papers. 1900-1982 1940-1959. (Nogales-Santa Cruz County Public Library). WorldCat record id: 24765027 ...

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...