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The Noice Collection of Copper Inuit Material Culture 572.05 FA N.S. no. 22-27 199^-96 Anthropology " SERIES, NO. 22 The Noice Collection of Copper Inuit Material Culture James VV. VanStone ibruary 28, 1994 iblication 1455 • i ^l^BT TSHED BY FIELD W '^1^^ - '^ ^ ^^ ^-' '^^' '^^ "^ tt^^tor v if-li/:';^iMUiiiT;^iS.;0.!ifiiliti«)l^i?iM8iiiiiI^^ Information for Contributors to Field iana led as space permits. - ., or fractioi, i.-^i.^;;. — f, i jirinied page ia,..,v.u ; expedited processing, which reduces the publication time. Contributio; i " ' ' "ill be considc^' ^tblication regardless of ability to pay page charges, i ited authoi: itcd manuscripts, 'Ilirec complete copies of the to ' dvc .(iiu c ; abmitted (one original copy plus two review copi nachine-cc t publication or submitted to reviewers before ' ; ind.s {){ the Micntilic • , i;kl be submitted to Sr : ield Museum of Natur.' >u6U5-2496, US." 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VanStone Curator Emeritus Departmer^t ofAnthropology Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496 Accepted September 28, 1993 Published February 28, 1994 Publication 1455 PUBLISHED BY FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 1994 Field Museum of Natural History / / Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 94-70185 ISSN 0071-4739 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Table of Contents 7. Bag with harpoon head 31 8. Leisters and side prong, dog swivel, fish- hooks, ice pick 32 9. Abstract 1 Fishing rod and lurehook, fishhooks, leis- ter seal I. Introduction 1 prongs, indicator 33 10. Woman's skin skin Copper Inuit Territory and Environ- knife, scrapers, stretcher ment 1 34 Subsistence 1 1 1 . Sewing outfits, marrow extractors, skin Settlement Patterns 3 scraper, needle case, grooving tools, thim- ble History of Contact 3 35 1 2. Crooked drill Previous Ethnographic Research 4 knife, saws, mouthpiece, file, Harold Noice and the Canadian Arctic adze head and blade 36 1 3. Men's drill Expedition 5 knives, grooving tools, shanks, Harold Noice's Ethnographic Col- drill bow 37 lections 6 14. Pick, adze, tool bags 38 15. or II. The Collection 7 Bags, lamp, dippers drinking ladles, Subsistence 8 snow knives 39 Land Hunting 8 16. Bags, blubber pounder 40 Sea Hunting 10 1 7. Man's outer parka 41 18. Man's outer 42 Fishing 11 parka Tools 12 1 9. Man's outer parka 43 Women's Tools 12 20. Man's outer parka 44 Men's Tools 14 2 1 . Man's outer parka 45 Household Equipment 15 22. Man's outer parka 46 Clothing 16 23. Man's outer (inner?) parka 47 Men's Clothing 17 24. Man's outer (inner?) parka 48 Women's Clothing 19 25. Man's overcoat 49 Miscellaneous 20 26. Man's outer trousers 50 Raw Materials 21 27. Man's outer trousers 51 III. Conclusions 21 28. Man's outer stockings, sock 52 Acknowledgments 24 29. Man's dance stockings 53 Literature Cited 24 30. Man's spring and fall boots 54 Appendix 69 3 1 . Sealskin boots 55 32. Mittens 56 33. Mittens 57 List of Illustrations 34. Woman's outer (inner?) parka 58 35. Woman's outer (inner?) parka 59 36. Woman's outer parka 60 1 . Map of Copper Inuit territory 2 37. Woman's outer parka 61 2. Bows and arrows 26 38. Woman's outer parka 62 3. Arrowheads, sinew twisters, thumb guard, 39. Woman's outer parka 63 marlin spike, bow case handle 27 40. Woman's outer parka 64 4. Bow case 28 4 1 . Woman's outer parka 65 5. Handle for carrying blood bag, bolas, lance 42. Woman's outer trousers 66 blade, arrow shaft straightener, marlin 43. Woman's inner (?) stockings 67 spikes, bone pins, drinking tube 29 44. Sled toggle and bag, comb, dolls, pendant, 6. Breathing hole scoops, seal hooks and bag, game, musk ox horn 68 harpoon heads 30 m The Noice Collection of Copper Inuit Material Culture James W. VanStone Abstract The collections of the Field Museum of Natural History contain 234 ethnographic objects collected among the Copper Inuit of the Northwest Territories, Canada, in 1919-1921 by Harold Noice. The artifacts in this collection are described and illustrated. For comparative purposes, information is included from previous studies of Copper Inuit material culture, notably those of Stefansson (1914), Birket-Smith (1945), and Jenness (1946). I. Introduction western and southern margins and the Copper- mine River. The area as a whole has an arctic climate with in Copper Inuit Territory and Environment mean temperatures February rang- ing from -20°F to -28°F. In July the mean ranges in of the area. The CopF)er Inuit are the westernmost of the the high 40s over most Precipitation is with snow in and winter Central Inuit, a grouping that also includes the light falling spring fall, blizzards the snow to the direc- Netsilik and Iglulik.' The western boundary of the shifting according tion of the wind. A continuous ice sheet covers aboriginal Copper Inuit territory on the mainland of Canada was at Wise Point near the western the straits and gulfs of the Copper Inuit region from late October or November until and entrance to Dolphin and Union Strait (Stefansson, July, lakes have an ice cover even The sun dis- 1913, p. 167). To the northwest their territory in- longer. cluded the southeast coast of Banks Island and to appears for at least two months each winter, while in it set for an As the south the eastern edge of Great Bear Lake as summer does not equal period. well as Contwoyto Lake and Beechey Lake on the might be expected, these yearly environmental had an effect on the Back River (Stefansson, 1914, p. 260; Rasmussen, changes important aboriginal Inuit subsistence 397). 1932, p. 1 19). In the east Perry River in Queen cycle (Damas, 1984, p. Maud Gulfwas the boundary between the territory of the CopF>er Inuit and the Netsilik. The Copper Inuit hunted over much of Victoria Island but, Subsistence according to Damas (1984, p. 397), concentrated their travel and occupation to the area south of The aboriginal Copper Inuit abandoned their Walker Bay to the west and Denmark Bay to the villages of snow houses on the ice in late May and east (fig.
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