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Factors influencing kamik production in Arctic Bay, Northwest Territories
Language: en
Pages: 65
Authors: Jill Elizabeth Oakes
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-01-01 - Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

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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 preparation o
Arctic Clothing
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Jonathan C. H. King
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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"Arising from a conference held at the British Museum in 2001, Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland is a wide-ranging and authoritative
The Antarctic Dictionary
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Bernadette Hince
Categories: Antarctica
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

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The world's most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language. This comprehensive guide to the origins and definitions
Harpoon of the Hunter
Language: en
Pages: 82
Authors: Markoosie
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970-05-01 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Based on an Inuit legend, Harpoon of the Hunter is a story of life in the old days, not as it appeared to southerners, but as it has survived in the memory of t
Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut / Hunter with Harpoon / Chasseur au harpon
Language: en
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Authors: Markoosie Patsauq
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-20 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time