Alaska
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Solecki, Ralph S.
label: Collection Creator
content: Solecki, Rose L.
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content: Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki papers
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content: Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki papers / Series 4: Other Expeditions and Projects
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-1985
label: Date
content: bulk 1949-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-29, Subseries 4.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The materials are arranged chronologically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries comprises materials relating to Ralph Solecki's work on two expedtions to northern Alaska. The first was a joint Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and United States Geological Survey (USGS)- Office of Naval Research Party expedition along the Kowpowruk and Kokolik rivers in northwestern Alaska in 1949. The second expedition was to the Brooks Range in northeastern Alaska funded by the Arctic Institute of North America in cooperation with the Arctic Research Laboratory in Barrow, Alaska in 1961. It contains field notes, excavation and artifact catalogs, maps, publications and manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs from Ralph Solecki and his collaborators including geologist William Farrand, and students Bert Salwen, Jerome Jacobson, and Robert Blanchard.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Artifacts from Ralph Solecki's 1949 expedition to Alaska can be found in the NMNH Department of Anthropology Collections accessions 187539 and 228740. Artifacts from the 1961 expedition can be found in accession 356696.