Artifacts & Tools
New Futures for the Past: Cooperation Between First Nations and Museums in Canada
Alternate Title
Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara J. Winter
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [29]-36
Description
Curator at the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology describes the process of acquiring the SDDLNEWHALA bowl, on behalf of the Saanich Native Heritage Society, in order to prevent its exportation to the US.
Notes on the Archaeology of the Utukok River, Northwestern Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond M. Thompson
American Antiquity, vol. 14, no. 1, July 1948, pp. 62-65
Description
In 1947 a United States Geological Survey field party discovered 17 archaeological sites and found a well made Folsom point.
"Numinous Objects": The Ethnohistorical Complexities of a Residential School Bass Drum
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carolyn Bartlett
2009
Description
Discusses the interpretation of the residential school experience of the Stó:lõ people who attended St. Mary’s Indian Residential School and played in its band between 1962 and 1984.
Ethnohistory Field School, 2009.
Object (To) Sanctity: The Politics of the Object
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerald McMaster
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 12, Aboriginal Peoples and Canada, Fall, 1995, pp. [11]-29
Description
Investigates contemporary issues and reasons surrounding displaced Aboriginal material culture and future exhibition and collecting procedures.
Scroll down to page 11 to read article.
Observations on the Butchering Technique at a Prehistoric Bison-Kill in Montana
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Kehoe
Alice B. Kehoe
American Antiquity, vol. 25, no. 3, January 1960, pp. 420-423
Description
Analysis of what was taken and what was left, if meat had to be transported, and which bones were used for tools.
Obsidian Source Use in the Greater Yellowstone Area, Wyoming Basin, and Central Rocky Mountains
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura L. Scheiber
Judson Byrd Finley
American Antiquity, vol. 76, no. 2, April 2011, pp. 372-394
Description
Contends that changes in volcanic glass artifacts demonstrate a response to cultural contact between Indigenous groups and Europeans.
The Occurrence and Wider Implications of a "Ghost Cult" on the Columbia River Suggested by Carvings in Wood, Bone and Stone
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wm. Duncan Strong
American Anthropologist, vol. 47, no. 2, New Series, April-June 1945, pp. 244-261
Description
Various reports on the carvings beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1805 while visiting a Chinook village; includes illustrations.
"The Old Village": Yup'ik Precontact Archaeology and Community-Based Research at the Nunalleq Site, Quinhagak, Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rick Knecht
Warren Jones
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 43, no. 1/2, The Past in the Yup’ik Present: Archaeologies of Climate Change in Western Alaska, 2019, pp. 25-52
Description
Examines the use of community-based archaeology in response to the destruction of archaeological heritage sites due to climate change.
A Paleo-Indian Bison-Kill in Northwestern Iowa
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George A. Agogino
W. D. Frankforter
American Antiquity, vol. 25, no. 3, January 1960, pp. 414-415
Description
Describes Simonsen site that was radiocarbon dated at about 6000 B.C. and had artifacts similar to other sites in Iowa and Nebraska.
Paleohunters in America: Origins and Diffusion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hansjürgen Müller-Beck
Science, vol. 152, no. 3726, New Series, May 27, 1966, pp. 1191-1210
Description
Documents the chronological and ecological changes that affected the techniques and tools used in hunting practices; includes maps and illustrations of projectiles.
Paleoindian Aggregation and Social Context at Bull Brook
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian S. Robinson
Jennifer C. Ort
William A. Eldridge
Adrian L. Burke
Bertrand G. Pelletier
American Antiquity, vol. 74, no. 3, July 2009, pp. 423-447
Description
Suggests that the Bull Brock site in Ipswich, Massachusetts was associated with communal hunting and a caribou drive. The site was a model that seemed to complement both environmental and social factors.
Paleoindian Charcoal from Meadowcroft Rockshelter: Is Contamination a Problem?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. Vance Haynes
American Antiquity, vol. 45, no. 3, July 1980, pp. 582-587
Description
Critical examination of Adovasio's work and alternative theories to pre-fluted point populations during the Wisconsinan period.
Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Assiniboine Delta of Glacial Lake Agassiz
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Boyd
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 31, no. 3, Supplement, 2007, pp. 198-221
Description
Concentration of sites within the delta margin suggests that this was a "cental place" after deglaciation.
Paradise Gained, Lost, and Regained: Pulse Migration and the Inuit Archaeology of the Quebec Lower North Shore
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William W. Fitzhugh
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 52-76
Description
The author examines evidence from archaeological sites and the artifacts from these sites in order to investigate in further detail the nature of the Inuit occupation of the Lower North Shore in what is now Quebec.
Passadumkeag, a Red Paint Cemetery, Thirty-Five Years after Moorehead
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wendell S. Hadlock
Theodore Stern
American Antiquity, vol. 14, no. 2, October 1948, pp. 98-103
Description
Describes further excavations of the Red Paint Burial complex after Moorehead's 1913 report in the book Archaeology of Maine
Past, Present and Future Issues in Great Basin Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Don D. Fowler
Alternate Title
Cultural Resource Series No. 20
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Donald Hardesty
Alice Baldrica
Renée Corona Kolvet
C. Melvin Aikens
Alanah Woody
Angus R. Quinlan ... [et al.]
Description
An overview of cultural and environmental topics that have played roles in the study of the middle Holocene period in the Great Basin.
Paul Gladue Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Paul Gladue
David Starr
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mr. Paul Gladue, aged 75, describes the area of land covered by a trapper; the traditional lifestyle in northern Alberta; and work in Fort McMurray supplying wood to river steamboats.
The Pendant Stones of Pasquatinow
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Meyer
Patrick Young
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 353-365
Description
Examines seven trapezoidal stone pendants recovered from a hearth by the Saskatchewan River in east-central Saskatchewan.
The Pender Canal Excavations and the Development of Coast Salish Culture
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roy L. Carlson
Philip M. Hobler
BC Studies, no. 99, Changing Times: British Columbia Archeology in the 1980s, Autumn, 1993, pp. 7-24
Description
Overview of Heritage Conservation Branch project and research results from two prehistoric archaeological sites.
Peruvian Textiles
Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 12, pt. 3
E-Books
Author/Creator
M. D. C. Crawford
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.12 (p.53-104).
Placing Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Whitelaw
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, [Special Issue: Culture, Heritage, and Art], 2006, pp. 197-214
Description
Discusses the challenges associated with displaying historical objects in a gallery, such as the presentation of works from a non-Indigenous conception of artistic value.