Photographs of Julia Averkieva
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 89-46
name: label: Names
content: Averkieva, I︠U︡lii︠a︡ Pavlovna
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Julia Pavlovna Petrova-Averkieva (1907-1980) was a Soviet anthropologist and student of Franz Boas. She became director of North American Studies at the Institute of Ethnography in Moscow and compiled "the most comprehensive Native American string figure collection ever assembled from a single tribe" in her book, Kwakiutl String Figures.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Given by Dr. Mark Sherman, coauthor of Averkieva's Kwakiutl String Figures, to Nancy Oestreich Lurie of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Donated by Lurie in 1989.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.89-46
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals retained by Nancy Oestreich Lurie and may now be in Lurie's papers at the Milwaukee Public Museum or the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Portraits of Julia Averkieva when she was about twenty years old, circa 1930.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The American Philosophical Society holds the Franz Boas Papers.