Book
Economic basis and resource use of the Coppermine-Holman region, N.W.T.
Northern Co-ordination and Research Centre, Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources • Ottawa, Ont. • Published In 1965 • Pages:
By: Usher, Peter J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an excellent ethnographic survey of two Copper Inuit communities of Coppermine and Holman and their hinterlands in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The primary time focus of this study is from the 1950s to the mid 1960s. Major topics discussed are geography, the historical backgound of the region, population, settlements (including data on housing, health, and education), various forms of transportation, renewable resources in the environment, and the income and family expenditures of various Inuit households. The document contains many maps, figures, tables and plates.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Hunting and trapping
- Marine hunting
- Fishing
- Property in movables
- Income and demand
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- May-Sept. 1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- primarily ca. 1950s to mid-1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Coppermine and Holman, Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter J. Usher
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-290)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 67020706
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Copper Eskimos