Alfred Kroeber's Documentation of Inuktun (Polar Inuit)

In 1897 and 1898, Franz Boas's graduate student Alfred Kroeber was given the task of documenting the language and culture of six Inughuit (Polar Inuit) people infamously brought by Robert Peary from northern Greenland to New York City. Kroeber's notebooks from this work, archived at the University of California, Berkeley, are largely unknown to linguists and others interested in Inuit languages and people. Kroeber's notebooks contain about fifty unpublished texts and significant linguistic detail from two generations before what was previously thought to be the first substantial documentation of Inuktun, the language of the Inughuit people. Also included are thirteen pages of lexical and text documentation in Boas's own hand

Documentation · Graduate students · Task (project management) · Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping · Geological and Geophysical Studies · Geological Modeling and Analysis