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Names

Name PrimaryWilkins Inuit Collection

Name AlternateStefansson Canadian Arctic Expedition Collection

IDs

ID LocalSAMA 28

ID UriOffline Only

Descriptions

Brief DescriptionTwenty Inuit artefacts, including compound bow and arrows, blades, scrapers etc, collected by George Hubert Wilkins, photographer on the CAE. Wilkins learnt invaluable survival skills from the Inuit on this expedition in which so many of the scientists died.

NoteOn loan from the Museum's Foreign Ethnology Collection

Subjects

localCanadian Arctic Expedition

person_orgGeorge Hubert Wilkins; Sir Hubert Wilkins; Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Coverage Spatial

Textpossibly sub-Arctic

Coverage Temporal

From1913

To1916

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Dates

Date Record Updated2012-05-30 23:41

Date Created in MME2011-03-18 19:07