Julia Averkieva
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Who is Julia Averkieva?
Julia Pavlovna Petrova-Averkieva was a Soviet anthropologist and string figure collector. A student of Franz Boas, and influenced by Lewis Henry Morgan, she was the eventual director of North American Studies at the Institute of Ethnography in Moscow. She is the compiler of, "the most comprehensive Native American string figure collection ever assembled from a single tribe," the Kwakwaka'wakw, eventually published by Mark Sherman.
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