OLAC Record oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10585

Metadata
Title:		Inuit materials, Eugenics Record Office Records
Contributor:		Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951
		Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933
		Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962
		Wentz, Herbert B.
Date:		1908-1929
Description:		The Eugenics Record Office Records consist of 330.5 linear feet of materials relating to the ERO, founded in 1910 for the study of human heredity and as a repository for genetic data on human traits. The Eugenics Record Office Papers (1670-1964) contain trait schedules, newspaper clippings, manuscript essays, pedigree charts, article abstracts, reprints, magazine articles, bibliographies, photographs, hair samples, postcard pictures, card files, and some correspondence which document the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. There are Inuit (formerly Eskimo) materials located in Series I. Trait Files. These include Folder "A:974 x 98. Caucasian x Eskimo" (1927), which contains correspondence (with sketches) of Herbert B. Wentz, M.D. to Harry H. Laughlin of the Eugenics Research Association, largely about the occurence of pigmentation in children of white and Native parents, but also with Wentz's descriptions of the unfair treatment toward Native Alaskans in medicine, education, and the reindeer industry. Folder "A:979 x 80. Caucasian - Eskimo" (1919) contains a single, brief anecdotal paragraph about an Inuit woman married to a white man. Folder "A:9798. Eskimos" (1908-1929) contains several newspaper clippings and articles (from Harpers, World's Work, The Literary Digest, The New York Times, etc.) relating to the Inuit, including Vilhjalmr Stefansson's article "Wintering Among the Eskimos"; newspaper clippings showing Mrs. Frank E. Kleinschmidt sharing a meal with Inuit women and children, Mrs. Kleinschmidt with an Inuit hunter, and an Inuit girl; Robert J. Flaherty's article "Wetalltooks' Islands: How the Remarkable Information and Native Map of One Wetalltook, an Esquimo, Suggested the Belcher Island Expedition" (with photos); Flaherty's article "How I Flimed 'Nanook of the North'" (with photos); "Knud Rasmussen's Artic Odyssey: The First of Two Articles by the Leader of the Fifth Thule Expedition" (with photos); William A. Thomas's "Health of a Carnivorous Race: A Study of the Eskimo"; a New York Times spread on Earl Rossman's expedition in Nunivak (with photos); Stefansson's "The 'Blond' Eskimos"; "Eskimos Under their Skin, as seen by Rasmussen" (with photos); and three pages of references to mentions of Eskimos in medical journals, two from the Journal of Immunology, Baltimore and one from Ugeskrift for Laeger, Copenhagen.
Extent:		3 folders
Identifier:		https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10585
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Subject:		Inuit
		Eugenics
		Medicine
		Education
		Alaska--History
		Mixed descent
		Anthropometry
		Arctic regions
		Expeditions
		Anthropology
		Ethnography
		Children
Type:		Essays
		Newspaper clippings
		Notes
		Correspondence
		Sketches
Type (DCMI):		StillImage
		Text
OLAC Info
Archive:		Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10585
DateStamp:		2020-03-02
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951; Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962; Wentz, Herbert B. 1908-1929. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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