Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Aginsky, Ethel.
2. Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982.

Description

1. 5 linear feet (10 boxes).

Summary

1. Papers consist of ethnological and linguistic materials on the Aleut and Kamchadal peoples.

Subject

1. People's Will (Political party : Russia)
2. Photographs
3. Maps
4. Russia > Kamchatka
5. Russia > History > Alexander II, 1855-1881
6. Alaska
7. Revolutionaries > Russia
8. Language and languages
9. Itelmens
10. Itelmen language
11. Ethnology
12. Anthropology
13. Aleuts
14. Aleut language
15. Narodna︠i︡a vol︠i︡a (Political party : Russia)

Genre/Form

1. Maps.
2. Photographs.

Call number

1. MssCol 1565

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Additional formats (note)

1. available on microfilm;

Source (note)

1. Boas, Franz (estate); and Lydia Domherr.

Biography (note)

1. Waldemar Jochelson (1855-1937), the Russian ethnographer known for his studies of the Aleut, Koryak, Yukaghir, and Yakut peoples, was born and educated in Vilna.

Processing action (note)

1. Accessioned
2. Cataloging updated
3. C5

Author

1. Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937.

Title

1. Waldemar Jochelson papers, 1909-1937.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Additional formats

1. Aleut materials available on microfilm; New York Public Library.

Biography

1. Waldemar Jochelson (1855-1937), the Russian ethnographer known for his studies of the Aleut, Koryak, Yukaghir, and Yakut peoples, was born and educated in Vilna. As a student he joined the revolutionary populist and terrorist organization, the People's Will (Narodnaya Volya), was arrested in 1884 and sentenced to three years imprisonment and ten years exile in Siberia. While there Jochelson and fellow revolutionaries Waldemar Bogoras and Lev Sternberg devoted their attention to the native population, producing some of the first studies of the indigenous tribes. Their work so impressed the authorities that they were allowed to participate in the Sibiriakov Expedition (1894-1895) to the Yakut provinces of northeastern Siberia sponsored by the Imperial Russian Geographic Society. Jochelson remained in Siberia after his term of exile expired to continue his work. He participated in the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1900-1902) and the Riaboushinsky Expedition (1909-1911) to Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands. Beginning in 1912 he held various positions in the Russian Academy of Sciences and taught at the University of Leningrad after the Revolution. Jochelson emigrated to the United States in 1922 where he was associated with the American Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Institute. Much of his later life was spent refining his work on the Aleut language and preparing a study of the Kamchadal people.

Finding aids

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Publications

1. Kamchadal folk tales published in: Worth, Dean Stoddard. Kamchadal Texts Collected By Waldemar Jochelson. (Mouton & Co., 1961).

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. People's Will (Political party : Russia).

Added author

1. Aginsky, Ethel.
2. Jakobson, Roman, 1896-1982.

LCCN

1. ms 68001658

Research call number

1. MssCol 1565