Northern News

Auteurs-es

  • Arctic Institute of North America

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3867

Mots-clés :

Anthropology, Archaeology, Artifacts, Diseases, Education, Employment, Etymology, Handicrafts, Health, Health care, Inuit, Serials, Tuberculosis, Walruses, Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Kamchatka, Poluostrov, Russian Federation

Résumé

The news items include: 1) an report on the first meeting of the committee appointed at the Canadian Eskimo Conference (reprinted from Arctic Circular, v. 5, no. 6, 1952, p. 63-64); 2) information from J. Brian Bird on the etymology of the name "walrus"; 3) information about the new series "Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska" and a listing of papers in the first volume; 4) a request from Evelyn Stefansson who wants to know whether any copies of the Russian periodical "Letopis' Severa" made it to North America; and 5) a translation of S.L. Markov's account of the "The discovery of ancient coins in the Kamchatka" by Evelyn Stefanson.

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Publié-e

1953-01-01

Numéro

Vol. 6 No. 1 (1953): March: 1–64

Rubrique

Northern News