Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902) was a major anthropological expedition to Siberia, Alaska, and the north west coast of Canada. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate the relationships between the peoples at each side of the Bering Strait. The expedition was sponsored by industrialist-philanthropist Morris Jesup (who was among other things the president of the American Museum of Natural History), and planned and directed by Franz Boas. The participants included a number of significant figures in American and Russian anthropology, and the expedition produced a number of important ethnographies, as well as valuable collections of artifacts and photographs.. }
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- Jesup_North_Pacific_Expedition abstract "The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902) was a major anthropological expedition to Siberia, Alaska, and the north west coast of Canada. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate the relationships between the peoples at each side of the Bering Strait. The expedition was sponsored by industrialist-philanthropist Morris Jesup (who was among other things the president of the American Museum of Natural History), and planned and directed by Franz Boas. The participants included a number of significant figures in American and Russian anthropology, and the expedition produced a number of important ethnographies, as well as valuable collections of artifacts and photographs.".