James W. VanStone

James W. VanStone (October 3, 1925 – February 28, 2001)^[1] was an American cultural anthropologist specializing in the Inuit people. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and was a student of Frank Speck and A. Irving Hallowell. One of his first positions was at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. In 1955 and 1956, he conducted fieldwork with the Inuit people at Point Hope, Alaska. He died of heart failure.^[1]

Bibliography

• Darnell, Regna (2006) "Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology." In: New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, ed. by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 3–16. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Many of the following are available on-line from Archive.org:

• An ethnographic collection from the Northern Ute in the Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History, c1997.
• Ethnographic collections from the Assiniboine and Yanktonai Sioux in the Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill.] : Field Museum of Natural History, c1996.
• The Cherry collection of Deg Hit'an (Ingalik) material culture / James W. VanStone. Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History,
• Paugvik : a nineteenth-century native village on Bristol Bay, Alaska / Don E. Dumond, James W. VanStone. Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 1995
• Traditional beluga drives of the Iñupiat of Kotzebue Sound, Alaska / Charles V. Lucier, James W. Vanstone. Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History,
• The Noice Collection of Copper Inuit material culture / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History,
• Material culture of the Chilcotin Athapaskans of west central British Columbia : collections in the Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill.] : Field Museum of Natural History,
• Material culture of the Blackfoot (Blood) Indians of southern Alberta / James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill.] : Field Museum of Natural History, c1992.
• Historic pottery of the Kotzebue Sound Iñupiat / Charles V. Lucier, James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History,
• The Isaac Cowie collection of Plains Cree material culture from central Alberta / James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill.] : Field Museum of Natural History,
• The Nordenskiöld collection of Eskimo material culture from Port Clarence, Alaska / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History,
• Indian trade ornaments in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History, 1989.
• Nunivak Island Eskimo (Yuit) technology and material culture / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History,
• The Simms collection of Southwestern Chippewa material culture / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History,
• "And he was beautiful" : contemporary Athapaskan material culture in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History / William E. Simeone, James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History, 1986.
• An ethnographic collection from northern Sakhalin Island / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History,
• Material culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi: the William Duncan Strong collection / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History,
• The Simms collection of Plains Cree material culture from southeastern Saskatchewan / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History,
• Cultures of the Bering Sea region : papers from an international symposium / edited by Henry N. Michael and James W. VanStone. New York, N.Y. (655 Third Ave., New York 10017) : IREX, International Research & Exchanges Board,
• The Speck collection of Montagnais material culture from the lower St. Lawrence drainage, Quebec / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History,
• Archaeological excavations at Kotzebue, Alaska / James W. VanStone. [1954]
• Athapaskan clothing and related objects in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : The Museum, 1981.
• The Bruce collection of Eskimo material culture from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska / James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill.] : Field Museum of Natural History, 1980.
• Historic Ingalik settlements along the Yukon, Innoko, and Anvik Rivers, Alaska / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History, 1979.
• Ingalik contact ecology : an ethnohistory of the lower-middle Yukon, 1790-1935 / James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History, 1979.
• E. W. Nelson's Notes on the Indians of the Yukon and Innoko Rivers, Alaska / edited, with an introd. by James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History, 1978.
• A. F. Kashevarov's Coastal explorations in Northwest Alaska, 1838 / edited with an introd. by James W. Vanstone ; translated by David H. Kraus. [Chicago] : Field Museum of Natural History, 1977.
• The Bruce Collection of Eskimo material culture from Port Clarence, Alaska / James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill] : Field Museum of Natural History, 1976.
• An early archaeological example of tattooing from northwestern Alaska / James W. VanStone and Charles V. Lucier. [Chicago] : Field Museum of Natural History, 1974.
• Athapaskan adaptations: hunters and fishermen of the subarctic forests [by] James W. VanStone. Chicago, Ill. : Adline Pub. Co., 1974.
• Athapaskan adaptations : hunters and fishermen of the subarctic forests / James W. VanStone. Arlington Heights, Ill. : AHM, c1974.
• V. S. Khromchenko's coastal explorations in southwestern Alaska, 1822 / V.S. Khromchenko ; edited with an introduction by James W. Vanstone ; translated by David H. Kraus. [Chicago, Ill.] : Field Museum of Natural History, 1973.
• Nushagak : an historic trading center in southwestern Alaska / James W. Vanstone. [Chicago, Ill] : Field Museum of Natural History, 1972.
• The first Peary collection of polar Eskimo material culture [by] James W. VanStone. [Chicago] Field Museum of Natural History, 1972.
• Historic settlement patterns in the Nushagak River region, Alaska [by] James W. VanStone. [Chicago] Field Museum of Natural History, 1971.
• Kijik: an historic Tanaina Indian settlement [by] James W. VanStone and Joan B. Townsend. [Chicago] Field Museum of Natural History, 1970.
• Akulivikchuk : a nineteenth century Eskimo village on the Nushagak River, Alaska / [by] James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill] : Field Museum of Natural History, 1970.
• An annotated ethnohistorical bibliography of the Nushagak River region, Alaska / [by] James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill.] : Field Museum of Natural History, 1968.
• Tikchik village : a nineteenth century riverine community in Southwestern Alaska / by James W. VanStone. [Chicago, Ill.] : Field Museum of Natural history, 1968.
• The ethnoarcheology of Crow Village, Alaska, by Wendell H. Oswalt and James W. VanStone. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1967.
• Eskimos of the Nushagak River; an ethnographic history, by James W. VanStone. Seattle, University of Washington Press [1967]
• Preliminary report of archaeological field work in southwest Alaska, 1966. [S.l. : s.n., 1966?]
• The changing culture of the Snowdrift Chipewyan, by James W. VanStone. Ottawa [Queen's Printer] 1965.
• The Snowdrift Chipewyan. Ottawa, Canada : Northern Coordination and Research Centre, Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1963.
• An archaeological collection from Somerset Island and Boothia Peninsula, N.W.T. [by] James W. VanStone. A contribution to the human osteology of the Canadian Arctic [by] J. E. Anderson and C. F. Merbs. [Toronto, 1962]
• Point Hope : an Eskimo village in transition / by James W. Vanstone. Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, 1962.
• The economy of a frontier community : a preliminary statement / by James W. VanStone. Ottawa, Canada : Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Northern Co-ordination and Research Centre, 1961.
• VanStone, James W. Point Hope: An Eskimo Village in Transition. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1962
• Point Hope : an Eskimo community in northwest Alaska / James W. VanStone. [Fairbanks] : Alaskan Air Command, Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory, 1961.
• The Caribou Eskimos of Eskimo Point / J.W. Vanstone, W. Oswalt. [Ottawa, Canada?] : Northern Co-ordination and research Centre, Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources [1959?]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Sheppard, William L. (2001) James W. VanStone, 1925-2001. Arctic, Volume 54, Number 2, June 2001, pp 199-200. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic54-2-199.pdf