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REPORT OF CDN ARCTIC EXPEDITION 1913-18, VOL XII COPPER ESKIMOS - $45 (Jarvis Street & Front Street E., Toronto, Ontario)
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Table of Contents:
Introduction
Section I – Field Data -
Descriptions of individuals measured
Tables of measurements
Section II – Discussion -
A. General description of the Copper Eskimos
B. Measurements
Conclusion
Diamond Jenness, CC FRCGS (1886-1969) was one of Canada's greatest early scientists and a pioneer of Canadian anthropology. In 1913, Jenness was invited to join the government-funded Canadian Arctic Expedition (CAE) that was led by two Arctic explorers – Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) & R.M. Anderson (1876-1961). Separated from the exploring party, Jenness spent the first winter at Harrison Bay, Alaska, where he learned how to speak the Northern Inuit language, compiling information about their customs and folklore in 1913. The next year, in 1914, assisted by interpreter Patsy Klengenberg (1900-1946), Jenness commenced studying the Copper Inuit / Blond Eskimos, in the Coronation Gulf area. This group had very little contact with Europeans. Jenness spent two years with the Copper Inuit and lived as an adopted son of a hunter named Ikpukhuak and his shaman wife Higalik. Diamond Jenness stated: “his goal was to understand the Copper Inuit on their own terms, not in relation to some preconceived 'ladder of creation' with Europeans perched firmly at the top.”
Today the Copper Inuit are known by their native names, Inuinnait and Kitlinermiut. This Canadian Inuit group live in what is now the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut and in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories. Most of them historically lived in the area around Coronation Gulf, on Victoria Island, and southern Banks Island.
Select Citation: Obituary: 'F.A. Acland Former King's Printer Dies', Frederick Albert Acland, Former deputy minister of Labor, 1908 to 1923, and later King's Printer, 1923 to 1935, died at his home in his 90th year, pg. 6, Sept. 4, 1950, The Ottawa Citizen
Provenance: ex Museum London Collection, London, Ontario.
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