The Discovery of the Koryaks and Their Perception of the World

The first information that we have about the Koryaks was reported in 1669 by Sosnovskij, the administrator of the small fortified town of Okhotsk, who had heard of them from the Tunguzian people. The first true ethnographic data were gathered only in 1700, when Atlasov (1935 [1891)], who had left th...

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Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Charrin, Anne-Victoire
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1984
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Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65278