Arctic Life: Challenge to SurviveCompanion publication to the permanent exhibit "Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life" at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Contains essays and photographs which focus primarily on the Canadian Inuit and their adaption to a harsh environment over the last 4500 years. |
Contents
Dedication | 9 |
Mary R Dawson Section of Vertebrate Paleontology | 19 |
Frederick H Utech Section of Botany | 35 |
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adaptations Alaska animals Archaeological Arctic Canada arctic fox arctic hare artists Baffin Island baleen Bering Sea birds breathing holes Canada Canadian Arctic Canadian Inuit Cape Dorset caribou Caribou Eskimos Carnegie Museum carvings Central Eskimo century changes climate cm long CMNH coast cold Copper Eskimo Dorset culture economic environment Eskimo culture European fish Graburn Greenland groups harpoon head Holman Island Hudson Bay Hudson's Bay Company hunters hunting Iglulik Inuit communities Inuit culture Inuktitut ivory kayak Labrador Lake land large number lemming lived ment migration Museum of Natural Museums of Canada National Museums native Natural History Netsilik North America Northwest Territories occupied Ottawa Palaeoeskimos period permafrost polar bear population print-making qallunaat sculpture sea ice sea mammals seal season settlements skin snow snowhouse soapstone southern species stone summer surface temperature Thule tion trade trapping tundra village walrus warm whaling winter Wyckoff