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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Kaj
| name = Birket-Smith
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Birket-Smith,_Kaj.jpg
| birth_date = 1893
| death_date = 1977
| address = National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
| occupation = anthropologist<br />philologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1938.01.25
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Hon. Fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
nominated for HML 1952<br />1952 HML [2nd award due to death of Peter Buck] The history of ethnology in Denmark Delivered 22nd Aug. at University Arts School, Cambridge during 30th International Congress of Americanists
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
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.[<br />Kaj Birket-Smith was the son of Danish librarian and literary historian Sophus Birket-Smith and wife, Ludovica (born Nielsen). He received his Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1937. He was a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.<br />In 1920, Kaj and Minna Birket-Smith wed. Kaj Birket-Smith died in 1977, aged 84.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
1916). The Greenland bow. København: Bianco Lunos bogtr. <br />(1918). A geographic study of the early history of the Algonquian Indians <br />(1920). Ancient artefacts from the Eastern United States<br /> (1924). Ethnography of the Egedesminde District with Aspects of the General Culture of West Greenland<br /> (1925). Preliminary report of the Fifth Thule Expedition Physical anthropology, linguistics, and material culture <br />(1928). On the origin of Eskimo culture <br />(1928). Five hundred Eskimo words: A comparative vocabulary from Greenland and Central Eskimo dialects <br />(1928). The Greenlanders of the present day (1928). Physiography of West Greenland (1929). The Caribou Eskimos. Material and social life and their cultural position<br />(1929). Drinking-tube and tobacco pipe in North America <br />(1930). Contributions to Chipewyan ethnology (1933). Geographical notes on the Barren (1938). The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta, Alaska <br />(1940). Anthropological observations of the Central Eskimos<br /> (1943). The origin of maize cultivation<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Kaj
| name = Birket-Smith
| honorific_prefix = Dr
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Birket-Smith,_Kaj.jpg
| birth_date = 1893
| death_date = 1977
| address = National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
| occupation = anthropologist<br />philologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1938.01.25
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Hon. Fellow
| left =
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
nominated for HML 1952<br />1952 HML [2nd award due to death of Peter Buck] The history of ethnology in Denmark Delivered 22nd Aug. at University Arts School, Cambridge during 30th International Congress of Americanists
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
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.[<br />Kaj Birket-Smith was the son of Danish librarian and literary historian Sophus Birket-Smith and wife, Ludovica (born Nielsen). He received his Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1937. He was a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.<br />In 1920, Kaj and Minna Birket-Smith wed. Kaj Birket-Smith died in 1977, aged 84.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
1916). The Greenland bow. København: Bianco Lunos bogtr. <br />(1918). A geographic study of the early history of the Algonquian Indians <br />(1920). Ancient artefacts from the Eastern United States<br /> (1924). Ethnography of the Egedesminde District with Aspects of the General Culture of West Greenland<br /> (1925). Preliminary report of the Fifth Thule Expedition Physical anthropology, linguistics, and material culture <br />(1928). On the origin of Eskimo culture <br />(1928). Five hundred Eskimo words: A comparative vocabulary from Greenland and Central Eskimo dialects <br />(1928). The Greenlanders of the present day (1928). Physiography of West Greenland (1929). The Caribou Eskimos. Material and social life and their cultural position<br />(1929). Drinking-tube and tobacco pipe in North America <br />(1930). Contributions to Chipewyan ethnology (1933). Geographical notes on the Barren (1938). The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta, Alaska <br />(1940). Anthropological observations of the Central Eskimos<br /> (1943). The origin of maize cultivation<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
