Kaj Birket-Smith

In 1940, he became director of the Ethnographic Department of the National Museum of Denmark.

Kaj Birket-Smith studied at University of Pennsylvania. The recorded working language is Danish. Employment is recorded with University of Copenhagen. Work by Kaj Birket-Smith is recorded in the collections of Netherlands Photo Museum, National Museum of World Cultures and Wereldmuseum Rotterdam. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, commander of the Order of the Dannebrog, honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania and honorary doctorate of the University of Oslo.

• Illustration — Sophus Birket-Smith Kaj Birket-Smith was the son of Danish librarian and literary historian Sophus Birket-Smith and wife, Ludovica (born Nielsen). He received his PhD in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1937. He was a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. In 1920, Kaj and Minna Birket-Smith wed. Kaj Birket-Smith died in 1977, aged 84.

• (1916). The Greenland bow. København: Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri. • (1918). A geographic study of the early history of the Algonquian Indians • (1920). Ancient artefacts from the Eastern United States • (1924). Ethnography of the Egedesminde District with Aspects of the General Culture of West Greenland • (1925). Preliminary report of the Fifth Thule Expedition Physical anthropology, linguistics, and material culture • (1928). On the origin of Eskimo culture • (1928). Five hundred Eskimo words: A comparative vocabulary from Greenland and Central Eskimo dialects • (1928). The Greenlanders of the present day • (1928). Physiography of West Greenland • (1929). The Caribou Eskimos. Material and social life and their cultural position • (1929). Drinking-tube and tobacco pipe in North America • (1930). Contributions to Chipewyan ethnology • (1933). Geographical notes on the Barren • (1938). The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta, Alaska • (1940). Anthropological observations of the Central Eskimos • (1943). The origin of maize cultivation

Kaj Birket-Smith is recorded as having received Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, commander of the Order of the Dannebrog and honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania.