Kaj Birket-Smith

Anthropologist Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1906–2004) [1] at a 1937 symposium with Kaj Birket-Smith (right), where they presented a joint paper on Alaskan ethnology.

Kaj Birket-Smith (20 January 1893 – 28 October 1977) was a Danish philologist and anthropologist. He specialized in studying the habits and language of the Inuit and Eyak. He was a member of Knud Rasmussen's 1921 Thule expedition. In 1940, he became director of the Ethnographic Department of the National Museum of Denmark.[1]

  1. ^ Collins, Jr., Henry B. (1946). "Anthropology during the War. II. Scandinavia". American Anthropologist. 48 (1). Blackwell Publishing: 141–144. doi:10.1525/aa.1946.48.1.02a00340. JSTOR 662818.