Zooarchaeology of a Focal Resource : Dietary Importance of Beluga Whales to the Precontact Mackenzie Inuit

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Friesen, T. Max, Arnold, Charles D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1995
• Subjects: Animals; Beluga whales; Food; Inuit archaeology; Mackenzie Eskimos; Predation; Subsistence; Kugmallit Bay region; N.W.T; Mackenzie Delta; Kittigazuit; Kugmallit Bay; Mackenzie River; Arctic; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas; eskimo*; inuit; inuits; Inuvialuit; Mackenzie river; White whale
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64276

Ethnohistoric records indicate that the economy of early historic Mackenzie Inuit was centred on the summer hunt for beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas). However, no systematic attempt has been made to quantify the dietary importance of beluga whales to earlier, precontact-period Mackenzie Inuit s...