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Late Eskimo Archaeology in the Western Mackenzie Delta Area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Douglas Osborne
Douglas Osborne*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle 5, Washington
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Although the American Philosophical Society–University of New Mexico Mackenzie Valley Expedition of 1938 (Bliss, 1939, p. 365) was not primarily concerned with Eskimo archaeology, the members felt, while at the trading rendezvous Aklavik on the lower Mackenzie River, that the opportunity to run down to the Arctic coast was too obvious to be neglected. The archaeology of the Western Eskimo of the Mackenzie area has never been well studied; little, as a matter of fact, has been added since 1930 when Mathiassen wrote the introduction to his Western Eskimo report. This paper will add somewhat to a meager store of fact.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , July 1952 , pp. 30 - 39
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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