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Diamond Jenness fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1913-1968.

Reference:

R6397-0-2-E, MG30-B89

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

98974

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Diamond Jenness fonds
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Fonds includes:

4 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1913-1968.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

13.9 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of records chiefly concerning the Canadian Arctic. Included is correspondence and diaries written by Jenness while he was a member of the Canadian Arctic Expedition during 1913-1916, as well as exerpts from the publication "The Spike: The Victoria University College Review" which contains an article written by Jenness entitled "Wolf! Wolf!", Photocopy, 63 pages.

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Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969

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Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 : Diamond Jenness, born in Wellington, New Zealand, earned an M.A. in anthropology from Oxford University. He led an anthropological expedition to Papua New Guinea for Oxford University in 1911-1912. He then joined the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913 under Vilhjalmur Stefansson to study the Eskimos of Canada and Alaska. After serving in W.W.I from 1917 to 1919 he joined the staff of the Victoria Memorial Museum in Ottawa, becoming head of the Anthropological Division in 1926. He did much field work among the native peoples of Canada concentrating on anthropological research in the north. An eminent scholar, he published many papers and books one of which, "The Indians of Canada" first published in 1932, is still a standard textbook. He has written numerous works on the Inuit among which are the five on Eskimo Administration published by the Arctic Institute Techical paper series.

Diamond Jenness has received the companionship of the Order of Canada, the Massey medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society as well as many honours and awards from universities and learned societies in Canada and abroad.

A biography of Diamond Jenness is available in the book "The Man Hunters", pages 39-97, by Nansi Swayze (Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1960).

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General note:

Diaries were presented in 1975 by Mrs. Diamond Jenness of Wakefield, Quebec. The typed transcript of the diaries prepared by Dr. Stuart Jenness was presented in 1976 by the Museum of Man.
The correspondence with G.W. von Zedlitz was presented in 1981 by Dr. Stuart Jenness. He presented photocopies from The Victoria University College Reviews in 1984. Other correspondence was presented by him in 1988 and 1990. The manuscript on Eskimo Administration was transferred from the Department of Health and Welfare through Candace Bell in 1982.
Copies of the correspondence of Jenness with Prof. R.R. Marrett of Exeter College, Oxford, were received from the Oxford University Archives, via the London Office of the National Archives of Canada in 1991.

Location of originals note:

Balfour letter is at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, England.

Availability of other formats note:

The diaries are also available on microfilm reels C-7200 and C-7207.
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Expeditions - New Guinea, 1911-1913 Henry E. Child's Jr. 1958

Arctic regions - Discovery and exploration, Canadian, 1913-1916 Geert van dan Steenhoven, 1968

Inuit - Alaska, 1913-1916 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1913-1916

Arctic regions - Climate, 1913-1916 Karluk (Ship), [1913]

Arctic regions - Flora and fauna, 1913-1916 Vancouver Island (N.W.T.), 1913-1916

Geology - Arctic regions, 1913-1916 Coppermine River (N.W.T.), 1913-1916

Diamond Jenness - Diaries, 1913-1916

Anthropologists - Canada, 1913-1934

Indians of North America - Canada - Government relations, 1968

Indians, Treatment of Canada

Inuit Canada

World War, 1914-1918 - Canadian Armed Forces
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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118-020086-1
119-020136-4
1988/0504 MSS

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MG30-B89
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Diaries: The original diaries have been withdrawn from circulation and are available only by special request.

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