Winter presents a more personal narrative of Cornelius Osgood’s fieldwork in the Great Bear Lake region. Forgoing many of the detailed ethnographic observations from other text, Osgood writes this book like a reflexive story that emphasizes his own perceptions and relationships.

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Osgood remembered by Yale:

Cornelius Osgood (b. 1905, d. 1985) was Curator of Anthropology at the Yale Peabody Museum from 1934 to 1973. He brought significant collections to the Museum from his research expeditions to the Arctic, China and Korea. Osgood may be best known for his research among the Athapaskan speaking people of interior Alaska, much of it published through the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series, and was also active in Connecticut archaeology.

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Osgood, Cornelius. Winter. New York: W.W. Nortan & Company, 1953.

ISBN: 978-0-80328-623-8

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