The Jesup North Pacific Expedition was a major anthropological expedition to Siberia, Alaska, and the northwest coast of Canada. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate the relationships amon
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
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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 a
Jesup North Pacific Expedition
…the relationships among the peoples at each side of the Bering Strait. The multi-year expedition was sponsored by American industrialist-philanthropist Morris Jesup (who was among other things the president of the American Museum of Natural History). It was planned and directed by the American anthropologist Franz…
Morris Ketchum Jesup