page_title: Maria Czaplicka
section_title: Yenisei Expedition
hierarchical_section_title: Maria Czaplicka / Yenisei Expedition
caption_attribution_description: English: Maria Czaplicka, Polish anthropologist, 1919
context_page_description: Maria Antonina Czaplicka, also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Czaplicka's research survives in three major works: her studies in Aboriginal Siberia; a travelogue published as My Siberian Year; and a set of lectures published as The Turks of Central Asia. Curzon Press republished all three volumes, plus a fourth volume of articles and letters, in 1999.
context_section_description: Marett had intended the work reported in Czaplicka's Aboriginal Siberia to be the basis for fieldwork in Siberia. In May 1914, she began such fieldwork, leading a joint expedition of Oxford University and University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology staff. Together with English ornithologist Maud Doria Haviland, English painter Dora Curtis, and Henry Usher Hall of the Museum, she arrived in Russia shortly before World War I broke out. After the war started Czaplicka and Hall decided to continue their expedition while the others decided to go back to the United Kingdom. Czaplicka and Hall (accompanied by Michikha, a Tungus woman) spent the entire winter travelling along the shores of the Yenisei River: more than 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) altogether.
  Czaplicka prepared several hundreds of photographs of people of Siberia, as well as countless notes on anthropometry and their customs.  Czaplicka also received funds from the Committee for Anthropology of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford to collect specimens from Siberia; 193 objects were donated by Czaplicka to the museum's Asian collection. In addition, she collected botanical specimens for the Fielding-Druce Herbarium.
caption: Czaplicka, 1919
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