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Copper Eskimo
Handbook of North American Indians. Arctic • 5 • Published In 1984 • Pages: 397-414, 731-806
By: Damas, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary on the Copper Inuit of the Northwest Territories of Canada, encompassing data from the eighteenth century to the 1970s, including information from the author's field work. Damas discusses the territory occupied by the Copper Inuit, geography,subsistence activities, settlement patterns, social organization, transportation, dwellings, clothing, religious beliefs, and culture history. The article is illustrated with numerous photographs and appended with a very comprehensive bibliography.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Information sources listed in other works
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Annual cycle
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Settlement patterns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Copper Inuit
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1700-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Damas
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 731-806)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Copper Eskimos