Jesup North Pacific Expedition
The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902) was a major anthropological expedition to Siberia, Alaska, and the northwest coast of Canada. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate the relationships among the peoples at each side of the Bering Strait.
A Koryak house with Kamchatka sled dogs taken by Norman Buxton in 1901.
Russian ethnographer Vladimir Jochelson (1855 - 1937) on a raft in the Korkodon River during the Jesup North Pacific Expedition.
Morris Ketchum Jesup, was an American banker and philanthropist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History and was known as a leading patron of scientific research and an eminent art collector, particularly towards his support for Frederic Edwin Church.
Morris Ketchum Jesup