Polar bear skin rug on the floor of the NWT Legislative Assembly Chamber

This polar bear skin rug lies on the floor of the NWT Legislative Assembly Chamber. There is a story that the tour guides tell about it. A man asked the Legislative Assembly to help him because the bear was terrorizing the settlement. The Assembly did not help, so he killed the bear and brought the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, Sandy
Format: Still Image
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Ursus maritimus
Polar bear - hide - Yellowknife
NWT
Beliy medved
Nanuq - Piksauyaq (ikt)
Hides and skins - Northwest Territories - photograph
Nanuq
ᓇᓄᖅ (ikt)
Isbjorn
Northwest Territories
Yellowknife
nanuq
Online Access:https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/aed6faa0-5b43-4d97-acc0-7ce5d3e1dd1e
https://doi.org/10.7939/R3HF34
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Summary:This polar bear skin rug lies on the floor of the NWT Legislative Assembly Chamber. There is a story that the tour guides tell about it. A man asked the Legislative Assembly to help him because the bear was terrorizing the settlement. The Assembly did not help, so he killed the bear and brought the hide to the Assembly.

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