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Collector:
Vega Expedition  Search this
Donor Name:
Accession Number Unknown  Search this
Culture:
Chukchi  Search this
Object Type:
Figure
Place:
Siberia, Russia, Asia
Collection Date:
1878 to 1879
Notes:
This object was catalogued in 1884 and identified as given by the Royal Museum of Sweden. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this as from Vega Expedition. In 1878-1880 the Vega expedition in the Arctic Ocean took place. The expedition was headed by polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld; the ship used was the Vega. The purpose of the expedition was to study the Arctic coast along Russian Siberia, and look for the Northeast Passage. The expedition's progress was stopped by pack ice on September 28, 1878, about 1.5 kilometers from the coast at the Chukchi Peninsula at Neshkan, only days from the Bering Strait. The expedition spent the winter there at a place called Pitlekaj in eastern Siberia between Wrangel Island and the Bering Strait. The Vega expedition artifacts are described on p. 112 of the U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1884.
Reference: Krupnik, Igor & Schultz, Martin. (2020). Dispersal and Reunion – The Saga of the “Vega” Expedition Chukchi Collection, 1878–2020. In Archiv 69: Archiv Weltmuseum Wien. 106-137.
Record Last Modified:
4 Jun 2021
Specimen Count:
1
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Accession Number:
000000
USNM Number:
E73233-0
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Data Source:
NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/373967d31-d657-4dbb-b21c-dbb7b894fbb6
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8476993