ABSTRACT. The existence of an important trade in soapstone vessels between Copper Inuit producers and the Inupiat of north Alaska during the 19th century is well known. This paper puts that trade firmly within the context of the Bering Strait intercontinental trade network, Of which the Copper Inuit soapstone trade appears to represent the maximum geographic extent. Archaeological and documentary evidence suggests that it flourished for only about a generation, between about the 1840s and the 1860s, before being circumvented by the Hudson’s Bay Company and American trading interests in Alaska. The soapstone trade may have been the first step in the rise to relative prominence of the Kangiryuarmiut of western Victoria Island, one of two Cop...
In this paper, we examine whether Canadian Inuit communities are better positioned now than they wer...
This paper focuses on the commercial exploitation of Arctic mineral resources by European newcomers ...
ABSTRACT. From an early stage in the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the captains of the compan...
The existence of an important trade in soapstone vessels between Copper Inuit producers and the Inup...
Dans l’étude des contacts entre Inuit et Européens au Labrador, la côte a souvent été divisée entre ...
ABSTRACT. A habitation site at Healy Lake in eastern Alaska was occupied by Alaskan Natives more or ...
This paper explores Indigenous use of copper metal to create objects of cultural importance on the N...
This entry focuses on the Copper Inuit around the time of 1915, which is prior to extensive contact ...
This Why Files article investigates trading, sources, and use of metal by Arctic peoples. Until rece...
Note:This thesis isolates four distinct patterns of production in the economic history of the Ahtna ...
Around AD 500 Palaeo-Inuit groups, known archaeologically as the Late Dorset, resettled parts of the...
International audience"By the 13th century AD, Thule people - ancestors of today’s Inupiat - occupie...
Here the processes and implications of cultural interactions occurring on the Northwest Coast of Nor...
Excavations undertaken in 1980 in the western Coronation Gulf area, arctic Canada, are described. Wo...
This article examines the relationship between the open skin boat (umiak) traditions of the Unangax/...
In this paper, we examine whether Canadian Inuit communities are better positioned now than they wer...
This paper focuses on the commercial exploitation of Arctic mineral resources by European newcomers ...
ABSTRACT. From an early stage in the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the captains of the compan...
The existence of an important trade in soapstone vessels between Copper Inuit producers and the Inup...
Dans l’étude des contacts entre Inuit et Européens au Labrador, la côte a souvent été divisée entre ...
ABSTRACT. A habitation site at Healy Lake in eastern Alaska was occupied by Alaskan Natives more or ...
This paper explores Indigenous use of copper metal to create objects of cultural importance on the N...
This entry focuses on the Copper Inuit around the time of 1915, which is prior to extensive contact ...
This Why Files article investigates trading, sources, and use of metal by Arctic peoples. Until rece...
Note:This thesis isolates four distinct patterns of production in the economic history of the Ahtna ...
Around AD 500 Palaeo-Inuit groups, known archaeologically as the Late Dorset, resettled parts of the...
International audience"By the 13th century AD, Thule people - ancestors of today’s Inupiat - occupie...
Here the processes and implications of cultural interactions occurring on the Northwest Coast of Nor...
Excavations undertaken in 1980 in the western Coronation Gulf area, arctic Canada, are described. Wo...
This article examines the relationship between the open skin boat (umiak) traditions of the Unangax/...
In this paper, we examine whether Canadian Inuit communities are better positioned now than they wer...
This paper focuses on the commercial exploitation of Arctic mineral resources by European newcomers ...
ABSTRACT. From an early stage in the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the captains of the compan...