 He studied the Nivkhi, Evenk and Ainu, and published a monograph in the expedition series, "The decorative art of the Amur tribes".Gerard Fowke, an archaeologist,

Waldemar Bogoras was an exiled Russian revolutionary; ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork with the Chukchi and Siberian Yupik peoples of the western side of the Bering Strait.He was accompanied on the expedition by his wife Sofia Bogoraz, who acted as photographer.