Residents gathering for a hearing of the Carrothers Commission at Rae, N.W.T. which was studying the future directions of government in the Northwest Territories.
Chief Bruno meeting with councillors [of the Carrothers Commission] at Rae, N.W.T. which was studying the future directions of government in the Northwest Territories.
This book contains photographs of people and places in the Canadian Far North, taken while Mathers was "on a trip from Edmonton to the mouth of the MacKenzie River". There are a number of images of "Esquimaux" wearing traditional clothing and stone lip ornaments, as well as of Native people carrying out tasks at various forts along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers.
A photograph of a teepee structure set up as a fish drying rack. There is a covering on the back half of the teepee and a group of people seated inside. On the back of the photo is written: Salt River in the Northwest.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 17-21
Description
Comments on a group of women who knit with qiviut (muskox hair), a fiber which is eight times warmer than sheep's wool.
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