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The Inuit and Diamond Jenness
From: June 10, 1993 To: June 5, 1994 |
This exhibit depicts Inuit life and culture as seen through the research of Diamond Jenness, Canada's foremost anthropologist and a former researcher with the National Museum of Canada. Included is his classic ethnographic work amongst the Copper Inuit as part of the Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918), and archaeological studies defining the prehistoric Old Bering Sea and Alaskan Thule cultures in the Western Arctic, and Dorset culture in the Eastern Arctic.
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