Caribou Hunting at Mingo Lake: A Comparative Study of Pre-Dorset and Late Dorset Hunting Methods

• Main Author: Hilts, Emily
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2021
• Subjects: Dorset culture; Caribou hunting; Inuit; Diet; Arctic peoples; Food supply; Social life and customs; Social conditions; History; Excavations (Archaeology); Baffin Island (Nunavut); Arctic; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Mingo Lake; Baffin; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/16629

Caribou are a very important resource in the Arctic because they provide food, raw material for weapons and tools and skins for warm winter clothing. The methods used to hunt these animals have been studied extensively by ethnographers who lived with and observed Inuit groups during the late 19th an...