Julia Averkieva

Julia Petrova-Averkieva
BornJuly 24, 1907
Poduzhemyeh, in Karelia, Russia.
DiedOctober 9, 1980 (1980-10-10) (aged 73)
USSR
NationalityRussian Empire
Occupation(s)Anthropologist, ethnologist
EmployerInstitute of Ethnography in Moscow

Julia Pavlovna Petrova-Averkieva (July 24, 1907 – October 9, 1980) was a Soviet anthropologist and string figure collector.[1] A student of Franz Boas,[1] and influenced by Lewis Henry Morgan,[2] she went on to serve as the director of North American Studies at the Institute of Ethnography in Moscow.[3][4] She compiled the a collection of Kwakwakaʼwakw string figures, which is recognized as "the most comprehensive Native American string figure collection ever assembled from a single tribe [or nation]."[5]

  1. ^ a b Averkieva, Julia P. and Sherman, Mark A. (1992). "Introduction by Mark A. Sherman", Kwakiutl String Figures Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, p.xvii. University of British Columbia. ISBN 978-0-7748-0432-5.
  2. ^ Averkieva and Sherman (1992), p.xix.
  3. ^ Averkieva and Sherman (1992), p.xx.
  4. ^ "Photographs of Julia Averkieva · SOVA". Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA). Retrieved 2019-06-29.
  5. ^ Averkieva and Sherman (1992), p.xiii.