The Dogrib Birchbark Canoe Project
The Dogrib are one of the Athapaskan, or Dene groups occupying the Mackenzie Valley area in the Northwest Territories (see map). Their hunting canoes, though engineered for traversing a rugged landscape, had elegant and flowing lines. . Although there is a reasonably good collection of archival phot...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/64104 2023-05-15T14:19:09+02:00 The Dogrib Birchbark Canoe Project Andrews, Thomas D. Zoe, John B. 1998-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64104 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64104/48039 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64104 ARCTIC; Vol. 51 No. 1 (1998): March: 1–84; 75-81 1923-1245 0004-0843 Birches Canoes Design and construction Dogrib Indians Education Elders Traditional knowledge Oral history Spruces Edzo N.W.T info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1998 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:21:19Z The Dogrib are one of the Athapaskan, or Dene groups occupying the Mackenzie Valley area in the Northwest Territories (see map). Their hunting canoes, though engineered for traversing a rugged landscape, had elegant and flowing lines. . Although there is a reasonably good collection of archival photographs of Dogrib canoes, mostly due to the efforts of the anthropologist J. Alden Mason ., the historical record has preserved little knowledge pertinent to canoe construction and use, and only a small number of canoes have survived in museum collections. During our recent archaeological research on two important Dogrib canoe routes, however, we recorded the remains of nearly 30 hunting canoes . Today, in the Dogrib communities of Snare Lake, Rae Lakes, Wha Ti and Rae-Edzo, the oral tradition is full of canoeing and canoe-related stories and remembrances, although very few surviving elders actually built one in their youth. This fact, and the large number of canoes recorded in our research, gave us a new appreciation of the importance and role they had played in travel, and led to an exciting cultural revival project: to build and document a Dogrib birchbark canoe. . [This article briefly describes the canoe project, sharing some of what the elders taught us about Dogrib hunting canoes.] Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Dogrib Mackenzie Valley Northwest Territories Rae-Edzo Wha Ti University of Calgary Journal Hosting Alden ENVELOPE(142.033,142.033,-66.800,-66.800) Edzo ENVELOPE(-116.039,-116.039,62.756,62.756) Mackenzie Valley ENVELOPE(-126.070,-126.070,52.666,52.666) Northwest Territories Rae Lakes ENVELOPE(-117.310,-117.310,64.113,64.113) Rae-Edzo ENVELOPE(-116.053,-116.053,62.800,62.800) ARCTIC 51 1 |
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The Dogrib are one of the Athapaskan, or Dene groups occupying the Mackenzie Valley area in the Northwest Territories (see map). Their hunting canoes, though engineered for traversing a rugged landscape, had elegant and flowing lines. . Although there is a reasonably good collection of archival photographs of Dogrib canoes, mostly due to the efforts of the anthropologist J. Alden Mason ., the historical record has preserved little knowledge pertinent to canoe construction and use, and only a small number of canoes have survived in museum collections. During our recent archaeological research on two important Dogrib canoe routes, however, we recorded the remains of nearly 30 hunting canoes . Today, in the Dogrib communities of Snare Lake, Rae Lakes, Wha Ti and Rae-Edzo, the oral tradition is full of canoeing and canoe-related stories and remembrances, although very few surviving elders actually built one in their youth. This fact, and the large number of canoes recorded in our research, gave us a new appreciation of the importance and role they had played in travel, and led to an exciting cultural revival project: to build and document a Dogrib birchbark canoe. . [This article briefly describes the canoe project, sharing some of what the elders taught us about Dogrib hunting canoes.] |
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The Dogrib Birchbark Canoe Project |
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