James W. VanStone – anthropologist
/There are 16 eBooks in this week’s feature – authored by James. W. VanStone from 1979-1998 while he was Curator of North American Archeology and Ethnology for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. These books have many illustrations – drawings and photographs – and are well worth browsing to glimpse of the cultures of the northern part of North America. VanStone’s research in the area started in the 1950s and he was a prolific scholar throughout his career. Enjoy the sample images (click on the image to see a larger version)…but there are so many more in the books themselves – all freely available on Internet Archive.
Material culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi: the William Duncan Strong collection -1985
The Bruce collection of Eskimo material culture from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska -1980
An ethnographic collection from northern Sakhalin Island -1985
Ingalik contact ecology : an ethnohistory of the lower-middle Yukon, 1790-1935 -1979
The Simms collection of Southwestern Chippewa material culture -1988
The Speck collection of Montagnais material culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec -1982
The Isaac Cowie collection of Plains Cree material culture from Central Alberta -1991
Nunivak Island Eskimo (Yuit) technology and material culture -1988
