Oowekeeno oral traditions as told by the Late Chief Simon Walkus, Sr.

• E-book | Engels | Mercury
• This volume contains fifteen Oowekyala Wakashan texts originally recorded at Rivers Inlet Village on the British Columbia coast with interlinear Engli... Lees meer

Shamattawa

David H. Turner, Paul Wertman

• E-book | Engels | Mercury
• Structural analysis of Australian hunter-gatherer societies and a critical assessment of Northern Algonkian literature suggested to the authors the po... Lees meer

Norwegian settlers in Alberta

Jan Harold Brunvand

• E-book | Engels | Mercury
• A preliminary study of the ethnocultural traditions of Norwegian settlers in the Camrose area, Alberta. Published in English. Lees meer

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians

John C. Hellson, Morgan Gadd

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• This study documents Blackfoot plant use as provided by elderly informants schooled in the tradition of plant uses. Use of approximately one hundred s... Lees meer

Solstice-aligned boulder configurations in Saskatchewan

Alice Beck Kehoe, Thomas F. Kehoe

• E-book | Engels | Mercury
• Of eleven Saskatchewan boulder configurations examined by the authors, three were found to correlate to astronomical phenomena. Although a search for ... Lees meer

Marius Barbeau’s Vitalist Ethnology

Frances M. Slaney

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• This book examines Marius Barbeau’s career at Canada’s National Museum (now the Canadian Museum of History), in light of his education at Oxford and i... Lees meer

Sharing Spaces

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• Sherry Olson has almost always worked with others, inspiring them to ground their research in an empathetic understanding of the human condition. Thro... Lees meer

Algonquin dialect relationships in Northwestern Quebec

Roger Gilstrap

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• The author compares and contrasts the lexicon, phonology, and grammar of dialects spoken in five northwestern Quebec Algonquin communities. Isoglosses... Lees meer

In memoriam: Peter Lewis Paul, 1902-1989

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• This book is published in memory of Peter Lewis Paul, O.C., LL.D. It contains copies of obituaries, an autobiography and tributes to Dr. Paul by his f... Lees meer

Preliminary study of traditional Kutchin clothing in museums

Judy Thompson

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• Analysis and comparison of Kutchin costumes located in North America and European museums, taking two garments of the National Museum of Man (Canadian... Lees meer

The McCluskey Site

Kenneth C. A. Dawson

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• A detailed description of a Blackduck tradition site that also contained Laurel tradition and transitional materials. The major occupation is assigned... Lees meer

Mercury

T J Mahoney

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• The purpose of this Gazetteer and Atlas of Astronomy (GAA) is to list, define and illustrate, for the first time, every named (as opposed to merely ca... Lees meer

Canoe construction in a Cree cultural tradition

James Garth Taylor

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• This study examines Eastern Cree canoe construction from a variety of anthropological and historical perspectives. The fully detailed and illustrated ... Lees meer

Origin of the wolf ritual

Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, Alexander Thomas, John Thomas

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• This last segment of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts includes three first-hand accounts of the Tlkwa:na, or Wolf Ritual, a principal ceremony of the Nuu... Lees meer

Artifacts from the CCFCS collections

Philip V. R. Tilney

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• This sampling of artifacts from the collections of the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies represents twenty-three traditional societies. Not exh... Lees meer

Contextual studies of material culture

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• A selected bibliography of holdings (nineteenth and twentieth century, English language private papers) in the Public Archives of Canada of interest t... Lees meer

Belly River

J. Michael Quigg

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• This report summarizes the archaeological salvage investigations undertaken along the Belly River in southwestern Alberta. In the course of the projec... Lees meer

Some grammatical aspects of Labrador Inuttut (Eskimo)

Lawrence R. Smith

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• A grammatical outline of the nominal and verbal paradigms of the dialect currently used by the Labrador Inuit of the Atlantic coast. The volume also o... Lees meer

Spirit wrestlers

Robert B. Klymasz, Koozma J. Tarasoff

• E-book | Engels | Mercury
• The centenary of Doukhobor settlement in Canada (1899-1999) marks a unique chapter in the story of this country and its peoples. Twenty-six contributo... Lees meer

Tuscarora legacy of J.N.B. Hewitt / J.N.B. Hewitt wa ekhiríhwaye O skarùre: Volume 1

Blair A. Rudes, Dorothy Crouse

• E-book | Engels | Mercury
• The thirty-six texts analysed in these two volumes deal mainly with three aspects of Tuscarora culture: cosmological and traditional religious beliefs... Lees meer

Factors influencing kamik production in Arctic Bay, Northwest Territories

Jill Elizabeth Oakes

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• This study analyses the factors that influence the production of kamik (skin boots) in Arctic Bay and describes the various techniques used in the pre... Lees meer

Native Peoples of Canada

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• The Manitoba Masterfile, PBHD, is a bibliographic database maintained at the University of Manitoba. Currently, the database contains 6,000 entries re... Lees meer

A Survey of the Derivational Postbases of Labrador Inuttut (Eskimo)

Lawrence R. Smith

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• This volume constitutes a dictionary of derivational postbases currently used by the Labrador Coast Inuit. Each entry includes the Inuttut form in pho... Lees meer

Suffixes of the Eskimo dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island

Kenn Harper

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• This volume compares and contrasts the derivational suffixes of the Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island Inuit dialects and presents them in d... Lees meer