An ethnographic collection from northern Sakhalin Island
By: James W. VanStone.
Series: Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 8; Publication -- 1361; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1361.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Pogoskii, Aleksandra -- Ethnological collections.; Ethnology -- Russia -- Sakhalin.; Evenki (Asian people); Gilyaks; Sakhalin (R.S.F.S.R.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: The collections of Field Museum of Natural History contain 59 ethnographic objects obtained in the late 19th century from teh Nivkhi, Oroki, and Evenki peoples of northern Sakhalin Island. These objects are described and illustrated. Information from historic and contemporary descriptions of Nivkhi and Oroki-Evenki material culture is included for comparative purposes.