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Diamond Jenness

Diamond Jenness was born in New Zealand and educated there and at Oxford. After field work in New Guinea he joined the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition, embarking on the career that made him the dean of Canadian anthropologists. Although known for his work on the Copper Eskimos and his identification of the Dorset culture, he did field studies of many other native groups, and his Indians of Canada (1931) was long considered a definitive work. Jenness retired in 1947 after a distinguished career with the National Museum and the Geographical Board, but continued writing for two decades.

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Diamond Jenness

Jenness naquit en Nouvelle-Zélande et étudia à Oxford. Après des travaux en Nouvelle-Guinée, il se joignit à l’Expédition canadienne dans l’Arctique, en 1913, commençant ainsi sa remarquable carrière d’anthropologue. Surtout connu pour ses travaux sur les Esquimaux du cuivre et pour son identification de la culture Dorset, il étudia pourtant d’autres groupes d’aborigènes, et son ouvrage Indians of Canada (1931) fut longtemps l’oeuvre maîtresse dans le domaine. En 1947, Jenness résigna ses fonctions au Musée national et à la Commission des Lieux géographiques, mais il continua de publier jusqu’à sa mort.

Note: Parks Canada has identified this designation for review (outdated language or terminology, missing history, factual errors, or new knowledge).
Location: Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa
Emplacement : Musée canadien de la nature, Ottawa
Coordinates · Coordonnées: 45.412902, -75.688795
Source: Parks Canada – Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada commemorative plaques (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
Licence · Permission: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
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