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2012 End-of-the-World Prophecy Discredited (Again)

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Agnes Portalewska
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Defending Life First, September 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the mural in a chamber in Xultún that confirms the Mayan calendar does not predict that the world will end.
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Aboriginal Art: How to Create it

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barbara Herberholz
Arts and Activities, vol. 138, no. 5, January 2006, p. 14
Description
Video explanation, by Peggy Flores, an artist and educator, how the beliefs of the Australian Aborigines are reflected in their art, which in turn shows the connection between man and nature.
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Aboriginal Australian Art Today

Alternate Title
Toledo Museum of Art Masters Series Lecture
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Wally Caruana
Description
Examines the emergence of the Aboriginal art movement and its significance today in the context of the Will Owen and Harvey Wagner Collection of Aboriginal Australian Art. Duration: 1:04:07.
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Aboriginal Camp Sites on Isle Royale, Michigan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Irving Quimby
American Antiquity, vol. 4, no. 3, January 1939, pp. 215-223
Description
Examines Woodland pattern and Iroquoian-like pottery found on Isle Royale.
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Aboriginal Potsherds from Red River, Manitoba

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimir J. Fewkes
American Antiquity, vol. 3, no. 2, October 1937, pp. 143-155
Description
Construction, surfacing and decoration of pottery found north of Winnipeg with illustrations of the shards.
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The Aboriginal Right to Cultural Property

Alternate Title
Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick Walker
Clarine Ostrove
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [13]-28
Description
Article outlines one possible legal response to the imminent export of a scared object under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.
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Adetta, Lady, "Black Curse" document

Documents & Presentations
Description
A 'curse' copied from an old document. A translation of the original appears beside a photocopy of the original. The source is unknown.
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Agayuliyararput: Our Way of Making Prayer

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Ann Fienup-Riordan
National Museum of Natural History
Description
Display and description of Alaskan Yup'ik ceremonial items and ancing masks prepared by a team of Yup'ik and others.
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The American Indian: What and Whence

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Campbell
The Canadian Magazine, vol. 2, no. 4, February 1894, pp. [305]-319
Description
Comments on the ethnographical study of the American Indian. Entire issue on one pdf. Refer to pages 305-319 for relevant article.
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Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans

Alternate Title
Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Enthnology
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
William H. Holmes
Description
Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Enthnology.
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Back from the Brink: Canada's First Nations' Right to Preserve Canadian Heritage

Alternate Title
Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diana Henry
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [5]-11
Description
Member of the Saanich Native Heritage Society describes efforts to prevent the sale of an ancient West Coast Saanich bowl to an American dealer, and to have this cultural property returned to their people.
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Beaver

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Description
A pictograph of a beaver at Rattler Creek, Saskatchewan.
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Big Horn Medicine Wheel: Why Was It Built?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonathan E. Reyman
John A. Eddy
Science, vol. 188, no. 4185, New Series, April 1975, pp. 278-279
Description
Argues that construction of medicine wheels illustrates knowledge of stars and astronomy that the Indigenous people possessed.
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Book Review

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alfred Fisher
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 157-161
Description
Book review of: Visions of Sound: Musical Instruments of First Nations Communities in Northeastern America by Beverley Diamond, M. Sam Cronk and Franziska von Rosen.
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[Book Reviews]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sue Kesteven
Aboriginal History, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 196-200
Description
Book reviews of 5 books: Service Delivery to Remote Communities edited by P. Loveday. Service Delivery to Outstations edited by P. Loveday. Aboriginal Arts and Crafts and the Market edited by P. Loveday and P. Cooke. The NAC Election in the Northern Territory 1981 by P. Loveday and D. Jaensch. Yugul: An Arnhem Land Cattle Station by Steven Thiele. Review located by scrolling to page 196.
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Bridging Past and Present: A Study of Precontact Yup'ik Masks from the Nunalleq Site, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna Mossolova
Rick Knecht
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, 2019, pp. 18-38
Description
Article uses archaeological, ethnographic, and oral history accounts to examine several masks and fragments recently recovered from the Nunalleq archeological site. Findings demonstrate strong pre-contact traditions of ceremonial mask making that continued post contact.
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Cahokia Mounds Site Was America's First City

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pamela D. Toler
American History, vol. 43, no. 1, April 2008, pp. 20-21
Description
Examination of the extinct city of Cahokia Mounds, outside of Collinsville, Illinois, its historical decline and excavation it.
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Canadian Inuit Sculpture

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Inuit Art Centre
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Discusses prehistoric arctic art, modern Inuit sculpture, imagery, materials, methods and regional styles.
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A Canadian Shield Pictograph Classification Design

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Dee Maurer
James Patrick Whelan
American Antiquity, vol. 42, no. 2, April 1977, pp. 196-202
Description
Discusses cataloguing and development of computer oriented categories for rock paintings.
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A Carved Stone from D'Arcy, Saskatchewan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimar Alfred Vigfusson
American Antiquity, vol. 5, no. 4, April 1940, pp. 334-335
Description
Distinctively carved stone with three faces found by Bad Lake, Saskatchewan suggests possibility of prehistoric occupation or early migration from the south.
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Cathedral Grove

Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Karen Wonders
Description
Website contains information on the destruction of Aboriginal heritage trees by industrial logging and it impact on First Nations identity and culture. Includes links to resources on totem poles and European trees,and related stories, digital media, and galleries.
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Ceramic Affiliations in the Northwestern Plains

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice B. Kehoe
American Antiquity, vol. 25, no. 2, October 1959, pp. 237-246
Description
Discusses three ceramic traditions of the Northwest plains including, Shoshone tradition (Great Falls ware), Pisamiks tradition (Ethridge ware in Alberta and Wascana ware in Saskatchewan), and Mandan tradition (Hagen ware).
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Ceramics and Polity in the Casas Grandes Area, Chihiuahua, Mexico

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael E. Whalen
Paul E. Minnis
American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 3, July 2012, pp. 403-422
Description
New research suggests that the assumption that Casas Grandes area was abandoned after the fall of the primate centre may be mistaken.
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César's Bark Canoe

Alternate Title
César et son Canot d'écorce
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bernard Gosselin
Description

Film about César Newashish, Attikamek of the Communauté Atikamekw De Manawan, who builds a canoe in the traditional or old way, using only birch bark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum. 

Lesson Plan.

Duration: 96:00

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Check-Stamped Pottery on the Northern and Central Great Plains

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert W. Neuman
American Antiquity, vol. 29, no. 1, July 1963, pp. 17-26
Description
Pottery found on the plains from 1500 to 1845 A.D. that was brought into the plains from the upper Mississippi valley or Great Lakes region.
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Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part One: An Alternate Reality

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kenneth Feder
Bradley T. Lepper
Terry A. Barnhart
Deborah A. Bolnick
Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 35, no. 5, September/October 2011, pp. [38-45]
Description
Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America, examining the way ‘civilization’ is defined and the evidence of pre-contact trade and settlement in North America presented in the film.
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Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part Two: False Messages in Stone

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley T. Lepper
Kenneth L. Feder
Terry A. Barnhart
Deborah A. Bolnick
Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 35, no. 6, November/December 2011, pp. [48-54]
Description
Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America; examines specific artifacts referred to in the film and discusses their authenticity and/or controversy surrounding them.
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Cloth & Clay: Communicating Culture

Alternate Title
Cloth and Clay: Communicating Culture
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
John Dalrymple
Description
"Exploration of art, culture and history through the ceramic and textile objects of the ancient and contemporary peoples of" Mexico, Central and South America. Information provided about the people and physical landscape.
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Collection of Historic Artifacts from La Loche House

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Don Steer
Description
On information card: Collection of the historic artifacts found at La Loche House including a brass shoe buckle, cufflinks, buttons, clay pipes and tinkle cones. Methy Portage, SK.
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A Comparison of Eskimo and Palaeolithic Art

Alternate Title
A Comparison of Eskimo and Palaeolithic Art. [Part I]
A Comparison of Eskimo and Paleolithic Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frederica de Laguna
American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 36, no. 4, October-December 1932, pp. 477-511
Description
Examines whether Inuit are the direct cultural and ancestal links to early inhabitants of Upper Paleolithic Europe and attempts to draw conclusions through comparison of art. This is Part I of a 2-part article, see also A Comparison of Eskimo and Palaeolithic Art. Part II. Non-Representative Art
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