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Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory

By Lucien M. Turner

Book information

Publisher
Mcgill-Queens University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0773522824, 9780773522824
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20329600 bytes)
Pages
0\249
Time added
2016-11-29 23:47:52
Native American Studies;Specific Demographics;Soci

Description

Lucien Turner arrived at the community known today as Kuujjuaq, on the northern Quebec-Labrador peninsula, in 1882. As with his earlier long-term appointments in Alaska, he was there primarily to conduct meteorological, atmospheric, and tidal observations for the U.S. Army's Signal Corps. But he also developed a meaningful rapport with the Innu and Inuit, spending his free time studying and recording not only their material culture - including clothing, dwellings, weapons, and tools - but also their lifeways, language, and stories. His images of the peoples' camps and formal portraits of individuals are among the earliest examples of photography in the Arctic. This reissue permits Turner's work to continue to be a classic introduction to the culture of the Innu and Inuit people of northern Quebec and Labrador.

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