Diamond Jenness (1886-1969)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Helmer, James
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Anthropology; Archaeology; Biographies; Copper Eskimos; Dorset culture; Ethnography; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Jenness; Diamond; 1886-1969; Native peoples; Thule culture; Starvation; Canadian Beaufort Sea; Bering Strait; Coronation Gulf region; Nunavut; Harrison Bay; Alaska; Victoria Island; N.W.T./Nunavut; Vrangelya; Ostrov; Russian Federation; Alaskan Beaufort Sea; Arctic; Bernard Harbour; Coronation Gulf; New Zealand; Stefansson; Wrangel Island; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; eskimo*; inuktitut; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65306

. Jenness quickly found his curiosity about anthropology blossoming into a vocation. In 1911 he was appointed Oxford Scholar to Papua, New Guinea, where he spent twelve months studying the Northern Entrecasteaux. Upon his return to New Zealand, he was asked to join the Canadian Arctic Expedition, an...