Dorothy Jean Ray

Dorothy Jean Ray (October 10, 1919 – December 12, 2007) was an author and anthropologist best known for her study of Native Alaskan art and culture.

In addition to a number of published books, she has had articles and papers published in Alaska History, Alaska Journal, Alaska, American Indian Art, Arctic Anthropology, Journal of the West, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and others.

She received honorary doctorates from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her alma mater, the University of Northern Iowa. Additional honors include the Dorothy Jean Ray Anthropology Scholarship at the University of Northern Iowa.

Some of her lifetime collection of artifacts are now part of the University of Alaska Museum Fairbanks' collection. Her book A Legacy of Arctic Art has been described as being both a catalog of the collection, and a memoir of the author's lengthy career.

She was married to fellow anthropologist and author Verne F. Ray.

Books

 * A Legacy of Arctic Art – 1996 ISBN 0-295-97518-0
 * The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898 – 1992 ISBN 0-295-97122-3
 * Aleut and Eskimo Art – 1986 ISBN 0-295-96410-3
 * Ethnohistory in the Arctic: The Bering Strait Eskimo – 1983 ISBN 0-919642-98-5
 * Artists of the Tundra and the Sea – 1980 ISBN 0-295-95732-8
 * Eskimo Art: Tradition and Innovation in North Alaska – 1977 ISBN 0-295-95518-X
 * Eskimo Masks: Art and Ceremony – 1975 ISBN 0-295-95353-5