Julia Averkieva

Julia Pavlovna Petrova-Averkieva (July 24, 1907 in Poduzhemyeh, Karelia-October 9, 1980 in Moscow) was a Soviet anthropologist and string figure collector.[1] A student of Franz Boas,[1] and influenced by Lewis Henry Morgan,[2] she was the eventual director of North American Studies at the Institute of Ethnography in Moscow.[3] She is the compiler of, "the most comprehensive Native American string figure collection ever assembled from a single tribe," (or nation) the Kwakwaka'wakw, eventually published by Mark Sherman.[4]

Sources

  1. ^ a b Averkieva, Julia P. and Sherman, Mark A. (1992). "Introduction by Mark A. Sherman", Kwakiutl String Figures, p.xvii. University of British Columbia. ISBN 9780774804325.
  2. ^ Averkieva and Sherman (1992), p.xix.
  3. ^ Averkieva and Sherman (1992), p.xx.
  4. ^ Averkieva and Sherman (1992), p.xiii.