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'Always with them either a feast or a famine': living off the land with Chipewyan Indians, 1791-1792
Arctic anthropology • 30 (2) • Published In 1993 • Pages: 40-60
By: Helm, June.
Abstract
In this paper, Helm estimates the food and calorie intake of 18th-century Chipewyans based on the detailed journal kept by the trader Peter Filder. Filder traveled with a party of Chipewyans between Great Slave Lake and Lake Athapasca, from September 4, 1791 to April 10, 1792. He recorded in his journal the daily number of animals killed and consumed. Helm is left to estimate the size, consumable tissue, leanness, and calories of the animals. She also has to estimate the size of the travelling party which changes as they meet and travel with other groups. She concludes that the average daily intake for members of the traveling party was 6.15-6.89 lbs., or 5140-5780 kcal per person.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field Date
- Not Specified
- Coverage Date
- 1791-1792
- Coverage Place
- Great Slave Lake region, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Notes
- June Helm
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60)
- LCCN
- sf 78000711
- LCSH
- Chipewyan Indians