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Historic Inuit pottery in the eastern Canadian Arctic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

James M. Savelle
James M. Savelle
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Scott Polar Research Institute, University of CambridgeLensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER
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Abstract

Previously unpublished information from John Ross's expedition of 1829–33 to the Canadian Arctic indicates that Netsilik Inuit at that time manufactured and used clay-based ceramic pots. Additional published ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources indicate that the Sadlermiut Inuit, and probably the Utkuhikjalik and Qaernerimiut Inuit, also possessed ceramic technology. Considered in conjunction with survival characteristics of pottery, this suggests that the Thule ceramic complex was not restricted to early stages of Thule culture (AD 1000–1200) in the Eastern Arctic, but, at least in some areas, continued through to the early Historic period.

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Polar Record , Volume 23 , Issue 144 , September 1986 , pp. 319 - 322
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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