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Title

• Mammals of Ungava & Labrador : the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge / edited by Scott A. Heyes & Kristofer M. Helgen ; foreword by Tim Flannery ; illustrations by Bryony Anderson.

Author

Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, in association with the Arctic Studies Center, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History)
• Helgen, K. M. (Kristofer M.)
• Heyes, Scott A.

Description

lii, 384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 27 cm.

Summary

"In 1882 the Smithsonian Institution Arctic scientist, Lucien McShan Turner, travelled to the Ungava District (encompassing Northern Quebec and Labrador) where he spent 20 months as part of a mission to record meteorological data for an International Polar Year research program. While stationed at the Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post of Ft. Chimo in Ungava Bay, now the Inuit community of Kuujjuaq, he expanded his duties to studies of the natural history and ethnography of the Inuit and Innu - the Aboriginal peoples of the region. His ethnography of the Inuit and Innu people was published in 1894, but his substantial writings on language and natural history never made it to print. Presented here for the first time is the natural history material that Lucien M. Turner wrote on mammals of the Ungava and Labrador Region. His writings provide a glimpse of the habits and species of mammals that roamed Ungava some 130 years ago in what was an "unknown frontier" to non-Inuit and non-Innu people. Illustrations of mammals feature prominently in the book, as do stories about mammals by present day Inuit from the Ungava region. The book also includes photos of mammals and mammal-orientated ethnographic material that Turner collected in Ungava. This book will be of immense interest to anthropologists, zoologists, Arctic researchers, Northern educators, historians, linguists, storytellers, and to the Inuit and Innu people"--

Series Statement

• Smithsonian contribution to knowledge

Uniform Title

Smithsonian contribution to knowledge

Alternative Title

Mammals of Ungava and Labrador

Subject

• Indians of North America > Ethnozoology > Labrador
• Indians of North America > Ethnozoology > Ungava Peninsula
• Indians of North America > Labrador > Social life and customs
• Indians of North America > Ungava Peninsula > Social life and customs
• Inuit > Ethnozoology > Ungava Peninsula
• Inuit > Ungava Peninsula > Social life and customs
• Mammals > Labrador
• Mammals > Ungava Peninsula
• Mammals Inuit > Ungava Peninsula
• NATURE / Animals / Mammals
• SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• Turner, Lucien M. > Diairies
• Turner, Lucien M. > Diaries
• Turner, Lucien M. > Travel > Ungava Peninsula

Genre/Form

Diaries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-383).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An appreciation of "Something Fiercely Desirable" -- Two extraordinary years -- Legend to the book -- A Turner family tribute -- L.M. Turner's introduction, 1886 -- Mammals of Ungava and Labrador, Canada -- Appendix: Turner collections at the National Museum of Natural History.

ISBN

• 9781935623212 (hardback)
• 1935623214 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2013024908

OCLC

851285628

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library