Historic Inuit pottery in the eastern Canadian Arctic

ABSTRACT Previously unpublished information from John Ross's expedition of 1829–33 to the Canadian Arctic indicates that Netsilik Inuit at that time manufactured and used clay-based ceramic pots. Additional published ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources indicate that the Sadlermiut Inuit, and...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Savelle, James M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1986
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
inuit
Netsilik
Polar Record
Thule culture
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400007130
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400007130
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Summary:ABSTRACT Previously unpublished information from John Ross's expedition of 1829–33 to the Canadian Arctic indicates that Netsilik Inuit at that time manufactured and used clay-based ceramic pots. Additional published ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources indicate that the Sadlermiut Inuit, and probably the Utkuhikjalik and Qaernerimiut Inuit, also possessed ceramic technology. Considered in conjunction with survival characteristics of pottery, this suggests that the Thule ceramic complex was not restricted to early stages of Thule culture (AD 1000–1200) in the Eastern Arctic, but, at least in some areas, continued through to the early Historic period.

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