The Jesup North Pacific Expedition of 1897-1902 did ground-breaking work in field anthropology among the indigenous tribes of Siberia and the North American Pacific Coast. Sponsored and financed by industrialist and philanthropist Morris K. Jesup, planned and executed by anthropolgist Franz Boas, its avowed purpose was to investigate and study the relationships among aboriginal peoples on both sides of the Bering Strait. Major figures in anthropology, among them Vladimir G. Bogoraz, Waldemar Jochelson, Franz Boas, Harlan Ingersoll Smith and James Alexander Teit produced major ethnographical studies on Siberian and Canadian native peoples as fruits of the Jesup Expedition.