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Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902)

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1897 - 1902
Abstract
The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to investigate the links between the people and the cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and the Eastern Coast of Siberia. Ostensibly the goal of the expedition was to prove the Bering Strait Migration theory which postulated that the North American continent was populated by the migration of Asian peoples across the Bering Strait. However, Franz Boas, the leader of the expedition was more concerned with documenting the cultures on both sides of the Northern Pacific that he and many other anthropologists feared were soon to be lost to colonialism and acculturation.

Morden-Graves North Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1929-1930)

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1929 - 1930
Abstract
To secure series of long-haired Siberian Tigers as well as other mammals and birds
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