Eskimos in Umiaks, Plover Bay, Siberia 1899

Summary

Two photos of Eskimos in umiaks on Plover Bay in Siberia. Both images feature an umiak full of Eskimos pulled up beside a boat. Page 157 of a photo album documenting the Harriman Alaska Expedition, Volume 2. This image is part of a series of photographs taken by various members of the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899, which was cosponsored by Edward Henry Harriman, president of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Washington Academy of Sciences. Originally conceived by Harriman as a big-game hunt, the enterprise was transformed into a scientific expedition upon the advice of Clinton Hart Merriman, chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey.

Subject

• Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart) 1855-1942
• Union Pacific Railroad Company
• United States Bureau of Biological Survey
• Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.)
• Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)

Notes

Also known as: RU7243_Box1_F6_Harriman28 [SPI_1616]

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7243, Harriman Alaska Expedition, Image No. SIA2012-3790

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

1899

Restrictions & Rights

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• Copyright Not Evaluated

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Animals
• Geologists
• Geology
• Taxidermists
• Zoology
• Botany
• Birds
• Nature and society
• Plants
• History
• Discoveries in science
• Botanists
• Eskimos
• Ornithologists
• United States--History

Place

• Plover Bay (Siberia)
• Prince William Sound (Alaska)
• United States
• Kodiak Island (Alaska)
• Siberia (Russia)

Form/Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Local number

SIA RU007243 [SIA2012-3790]

Physical description

Photographic prints 9.5h x 13.75w

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