The peoples of northeastern Siberia — Chukchi, Koryak, Yukaghir, and their neighbors along the Kolyma and Anadyr rivers and the Pacific coast — speak languages related to none of the library's other shelves. They are not Uralic, like the Khanty, Mansi, and Nenets already housed under that name; they are Paleosiberian and Chukotko-Kamchatkan language families, encountered by outsiders mainly through the Jesup North Pacific Expedition of 1897–1902, the first large-scale scholarly survey of the region.

This shelf currently holds English-language ethnographic collections recorded directly in the field by the expedition's own researchers — tales, songs, and an ethnographer's working introduction — rather than translations from a native-language source. Subshelves are organized by people:

• Chukchi — the reindeer-herding and maritime Chukchee of the Chukchi Peninsula.
• Koryak — their southern neighbors on the Kamchatka and Penshina Bay coasts.
• Yukaghir — the Kolyma-country peoples whose tales here also include Lamut, Chuvantzi, and Russian Creole material recorded alongside them.

A reader should know two things going in. First, some of this shelf's source volumes present their text as continuous interlinear transcription — the native language given word by word beneath an English gloss, interleaved with a separate flowing translation — and where that apparatus could not be separated from the translation at reliable quality, the editions here present the translation alone and say so plainly. Second, the pool of open, public-domain source material for this region is real but uneven: some major volumes are locked behind lending walls or simply not yet found in an open digitization, and this shelf will grow as that changes.

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