With the ship gone, the hunting party travelled to Barrow, Alaska to meet up the two other vessels involved in the expedition- the "Mary Sachs" and "Alaska". Jenness spent the winter at Harrison Bay, Alaska where he learned how to speak the Inuit language and compiled information about Western Inuit customs and folklore. In 1914 he partook on what the expedition was set out for, to study the Copper Inuit of Victoria Island. This group of people had very little contact with Europeans and Jenness was in charge of recording the aboriginal way of life in this area.