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The Meta Incognita Project : contributions to field studies

Title
The Meta Incognita Project : contributions to field studies / edited by Stephen Alsford.
Publication
Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization in collaboration with the Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, with the authorization of the Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee, ©1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Alsford, Stephen, 1952-
  • Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee.
Description
viii, 219 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
The Meta Incognita Project investigates the Arctic expeditions of Martin Frobisher in 1576-1578, which included the first English attempt to establish a colony in Canada, and their effects on the Inuit he encountered in southern Baffin Island, as well as attempting to ensure the longterm protection of the associated historic sites.
Series Statement
  • Mercury series, 0316-1854
  • Directorate paper / Canadian Museum of Civilization ; no. 6
Uniform Title
  • Mercury series.
  • Directorate paper (Canadian Museum of Civilization. Directorate) ; no. 6.
Subject
  • Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594
  • Frobisher, Martin, Sir, 1535?-1594
  • Frobisher, Martin, (1535-1594)
  • Frobisher, Martin
  • Inuit > Nunavut > Frobisher Bay Region > Antiquities
  • Inuits > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Frobisher Bay > Antiquités
  • 73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology
  • Antiquities
  • Discoveries in geography > English
  • Inuit > Antiquities
  • Entdeckung
  • Arktisforschung
  • Veldwerk
  • Expedities
  • Archeologie
  • Geologie
  • Inuits > Canada
  • Geschichte (1576-1578)
  • Frobisher Bay (Nunavut : Bay) > Discovery and exploration > English
  • Frobisher Bay (Nunavut : Bay) > Antiquities
  • Frobisher Bay (T.N.-O.) > Antiquités
  • Arctique > Découverte et exploration britanniques
  • Atlantic Ocean > Frobisher Bay
  • Kanada
  • Frobisher (Canada ; Baie) > Antiquités
  • Frobisher Bay (Nunavut : Bay) Antiquities
  • Frobisher Bay (Nunavut : Bay) Discovery and exploration English
  • Frobisher, Martin Sir ca. 1535-1594
  • Inuit Nunavut Frobisher Bay Region Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
An archaeological assessment of Qallunaaq Island / Robert McGhee and James A. Tuck -- The 1991 investigations on Qallunaaq Island / James A. Tuck, J.A. Pilon, and Robert McGhee -- Martin Frobisher's base camp on Kodlunarn Island / Réginald Auger, Michel Blackburn, and William W. Fitzhugh -- The impermanence of Kodlunarn Island / Donald D. Hogarth -- Archaeology of the Frobisher voyages and European-Inuit contact / William W. Fitzhugh -- Acculturation in the Arctic: the Inuit meet Martin Frobisher / Robert M. Ehrenreich and Michael L. Wayman -- Martin Frobisher's mines and ores / Donald D. Hogarth, David T. Moore, and Peter W. Boreham -- Preliminary report on excavations at Kuyait (KfDf-2) and Kamaiyuk (KfDe-5), Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, N.W.T. / Lynda Gullason, William Fitzhugh, and Anne Henshaw -- Analysis of wood and charcoal samples from Inuit sites in Frobisher Bay / Dosia Laeyendecker -- Inuit oral history: the voyages of Sir Martin Frobisher, 1576-78 / Susan Rowley.
ISBN
  • 0660140101
  • 9780660140100
LCCN
94101250
OCLC
  • ocm30593402
  • 30593402
  • SCSB-364509
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library