Eskimo Jacket Ornaments of Ivory Suggesting Function of Bone Pendants Found in Beothuk Sites in Newfoundland
The large number of carved bone ornaments found in sites of the extinct Beothuk of Newfoundland and illustrated in some abundance in Howley's monograph on this tribe, have been a source of speculation among American archaeologists r as to their associations with Eskimo or Indian art. Without kn...
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crcambridgeupr:10.2307/275284 2023-05-15T15:42:06+02:00 Eskimo Jacket Ornaments of Ivory Suggesting Function of Bone Pendants Found in Beothuk Sites in Newfoundland Speck, Frank G. 1940 http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/275284 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600032315 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms American Antiquity volume 5, issue 3, page 225-228 ISSN 0002-7316 2325-5064 Museology Archeology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) History journal-article 1940 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.2307/275284 2023-01-20T07:09:34Z The large number of carved bone ornaments found in sites of the extinct Beothuk of Newfoundland and illustrated in some abundance in Howley's monograph on this tribe, have been a source of speculation among American archaeologists r as to their associations with Eskimo or Indian art. Without knowing positively that these objects are pendant ornaments for the fur coats worn by this and other groups in the northeast there has been a tendency by inr ference to regard them as such. The fact that similarly appearing carved pendants of ivory are known from the Labrador Eskimo in general, and are also typical of coat decoration of the Baffinlanders, as well as other bands of Eskimo of the central group, puts the question to test, and points to the probability that the Beothuk objects served a similar purpose in clothing decoration. Article in Journal/Newspaper Beothuk eskimo* Newfoundland Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Newfoundland Indian American Antiquity 5 3 225 228 |
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The large number of carved bone ornaments found in sites of the extinct Beothuk of Newfoundland and illustrated in some abundance in Howley's monograph on this tribe, have been a source of speculation among American archaeologists r as to their associations with Eskimo or Indian art. Without knowing positively that these objects are pendant ornaments for the fur coats worn by this and other groups in the northeast there has been a tendency by inr ference to regard them as such. The fact that similarly appearing carved pendants of ivory are known from the Labrador Eskimo in general, and are also typical of coat decoration of the Baffinlanders, as well as other bands of Eskimo of the central group, puts the question to test, and points to the probability that the Beothuk objects served a similar purpose in clothing decoration. |
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Eskimo Jacket Ornaments of Ivory Suggesting Function of Bone Pendants Found in Beothuk Sites in Newfoundland |
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Eskimo Jacket Ornaments of Ivory Suggesting Function of Bone Pendants Found in Beothuk Sites in Newfoundland |
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Eskimo Jacket Ornaments of Ivory Suggesting Function of Bone Pendants Found in Beothuk Sites in Newfoundland |
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Eskimo Jacket Ornaments of Ivory Suggesting Function of Bone Pendants Found in Beothuk Sites in Newfoundland |
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Eskimo Jacket Ornaments of Ivory Suggesting Function of Bone Pendants Found in Beothuk Sites in Newfoundland |
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eskimo jacket ornaments of ivory suggesting function of bone pendants found in beothuk sites in newfoundland |
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Beothuk eskimo* Newfoundland |
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Beothuk eskimo* Newfoundland |
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