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These photographs were taken during fieldwork carried out between 1877 and 1961 by employees of what is now the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The collection consists primarily of photographs taken by James A. Teit between 1911 and 1922 for the Geological Survey of...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1987-01-01
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Across the vast expanse of northern lands from eastern Siberia to Greenland, Aboriginal peoples created fifty to sixty different models of kayaks. This book treats Canada’s share of this spectrum, which is broken down into three kayak groups: Mackenzie, Central Canadian...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1987-01-01
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This Master’s thesis examines the experiences of a Cree woman from Rupert House on Quebec’s James Bay. Following Radin’s method of inductive analysis, the author examines the woman’s narrative and explains its possible textual, personal and cultural meanings. The intent...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1986-01-01
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An examination of the varied uses of local flora by the Saskatchewan Woods Cree; for example, in medicine, food, and construction. The results are subsequently compared with similar information pertaining to the Chippewa, Mistassini Cree, Attikamek, Alberta Cree, and...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1985-01-01
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An archival and ethnographic account of Coast Tsimshian feast traditions with emphasis on their role as forms of discourse shaped by idiosyncratic textual conventions.Published in English
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Mercury-Mercure
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1985-01-01
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An ethnographic and documentary study of the subsistence-settlement patterns and social organization of the Red Earth Cree of east central Saskatchewan with particular emphasis upon a “deme” (discrete intermarriage arrangement) they shared with the Shoal Lake Cree. The...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1985-01-01
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A discussion of two types of Beothuk canoe, a multi-purpose variety and one intended specifically for ocean travel, and their relationship to watercraft used by other North American Native groups. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1985-01-01
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Abstracts of Master’s and Doctoral thesis completed at Canadian universities between 1970-1982 dealing with ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and physical anthropological topics relevant to Canada’s Native peoples.Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1984-01-01
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This study examines in detail, the histories and customs of Coast Salish gambling games and looks at the game structure and its attending spirit power affiliations. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1984-01-01
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An alphabetical and chronological guide to the professional correspondence of anthropologist Edward Sapir during his tenure as Head of the Anthropology Division of the Geological Survey of Canada (1910-1925). Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1984-01-01
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A study of the development of contemporary Inuit literature, in both Inuktitut and English, including a discussion of its themes, structures and roots in oral tradition. The author concludes that a strong continuity persists between the two narrative forms despite...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1984-01-01
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An examination of the influence of bilateral kinship principles on the social organization of the Sahtúgot’ine (Bear Lake People), a Northeastern Athapaskan group. The recognition that factors other than kinship and marriage are also pertinent to an understanding of...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1984-01-01
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A study of narratives told by female members of the Tagish and Tutchone of central and southern Yukon with particular emphasis on their cultural continuity, function during a period of significant change, and the insights they offer into traditional gender roles. Most...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1983-01-01
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In seeking to examine the accommodation by this Northern Algonquian people to the fur trade, this study first outlines the historical development and ecological setting and then looks at the question of social change from the perspectives of economic adaptations, group...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1983-01-01
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The papers in this volume were prepared for Consciousness and Inquiry, a conference jointly sponsored by the National Museum of Man and the Canadian Ethnology Society, and held in London, Ontario in 1981.The papers focus on interests and concerns which characterize...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1983-01-01
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This volume contains fifteen Oowekyala Wakashan texts originally recorded at Rivers Inlet Village on the British Columbia coast with interlinear English translations and general comments on the language and culture. Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1982-01-01
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This study defines the traditional styles and genres of Netsilik Inuit music and examines the extent of change which this music has undergone especially as a result of contact with European and North American music. Volume two consists of song transcriptions and...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1982-01-01
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This study defines the traditional styles and genres of Netsilik Inuit music and examines the extent of change which this music has undergone especially as a result of contact with European and North American music. Volume two consists of song transcriptions and...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1982-01-01
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Once an integral feature of the culture and economy of the St. Francis Abenaki at Odanak, splint basketry has become an activity of the elderly. This volume examines the reasons for this change as indicated by alterations to basketry style and construction between 1880...
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Mercury-Mercure
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1982-01-01
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This work is a history of the Native people of Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories from the beginning of the fur trade on Great Slave Lake in 1786 to 1972. Aboriginal culture provides a base for the historic changes discussed.Published in English.
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Mercury-Mercure
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1982-01-01
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