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Museum fuer Voelkerkunde
| Address: | Berlin |
| Collections: | Very extensive holdings of Yup'ik Eskimo materials collected by Johan Adrian Jacobsen in southwest Alaska, 1882-83. |
Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg
| Address: | Binderstrasse 14, D-2000 Hamburg 13 |
| Year of foundation: | 1879 |
| Collections: | Sizeable Arctic collections in which Siberia is particularly well-represented. Library |
| Publications: | <em>Mitteilungen</em> (1971-, annual) |
Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde [State Museum of Ethnology]
| [State Museum of Ethnology] | |
| Address: | Abteilung fur Nordamerika und Polarlander, Maximilianstrasse 42, D-8000 Munchen 22 |
| E-mail: | 100275.1130@CompuServe.Com |
| Telephone: | +49-89-2285506 |
| Fax: | +49-89-224582 |
| Year of foundation: | 1868 |
| Collections: | The Department for North America and the Polar Lands maintains significant collections of polar interest, including artefacts for the Alaskan Eskimo collected by Cook (1776-80) and Krusenstern (1803-06); Chukchi (Wolf, 1880s); St. Lawrence Island (Geist); and Inuit sculptures (Lorne Balshine collection, ca 1970s) |
| Publications: | <em>Die Eskimo</em> (Zerries and Rousselot, 1977); <em>Kanuitpit</em> (Rousselot, 1994) |