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Yup’ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin

Fieldwork Turned on Its Head

By Ann Fienup-Riordan. Foreword by Peter Bolz. Photographs by Barry McWayne

Norwegian adventurer Johan Adrian Jacobsen collected more than two thousand Yup'ik objects during his travels in Alaska in 1882 and 1883. Now housed in the Berlin Ethnological Museum, the Jacobsen collection remains one of the...