RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Petr Pavlovich Doroshin in Russian America
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 101
OP 112
DO 10.1353/arc.2011.0082
VO 44
IS 2
A1 Richard L. Bland
YR 2007
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/44/2/101.abstract
AB In the early 1800s the Russian-American Company was in search of valuable minerals, especially gold, to bolster its waning economy based on furs. Geologist Petr P. Doroshin was sent to Alaska to find these minerals. While there he spent time in the community of Nuchek in the Gulf of Alaska, where he heard and recorded various accounts by the local natives. These accounts vary from traditional stories about sea monsters to the narrative of the recently annihilated exploration party of Ruf Serebrennikov.↵Richard L. Bland, State Museum of Anthropology Museum of Natural and Cultural History 1224 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403