Alaska Native Language Archive

Resource Details

Identifier:

EY784HA1784

Title

[The Natural History and Ethnological Observations of William Anderson]

Description:

Anderson was a surgeon in the Royal Navy on Captain Cook's ship 'Resolution' when it visited Alaskan waters in 1778. He left descriptions of natural history and ethnological observations.

This folder includes copies of his linguistic observations, notes by Krauss, and correspondence on Cook's and other early explorers' vocabularies.

Historical note based based on information in folder.

ca.18

Contributors

Krauss, Michael E. (annotator)
Anderson, William (author)

Date

1784

Type

Text

Subject Language(s)

Eyak

LingType

description
ethnographic
text-ethnographic

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