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The Meta Incognita Project : contributions to field studies

Title
  1. The Meta Incognita Project : contributions to field studies / edited by Stephen Alsford.
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  1. 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
  1. Alsford, Stephen, 1952-
  2. Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee.
Description
  1. viii, 219 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Mercury series, 0316-1854
  2. Directorate paper / Canadian Museum of Civilization ; no. 6
Uniform title
  1. Mercury series.
  2. Directorate paper (Canadian Museum of Civilization. Directorate) ; no. 6.
Subject
  1. Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594
  2. Frobisher, Martin, Sir, 1535?-1594
  3. Frobisher, Martin, (1535-1594)
  4. Frobisher, Martin
  5. Inuit > Nunavut > Frobisher Bay Region > Antiquities
  6. Inuits > Territoires du Nord-Ouest > Frobisher Bay > Antiquités
  7. 73.03 methods and techniques of ethnology
  8. Antiquities
  9. Discoveries in geography > English
  10. Inuit > Antiquities
  11. Entdeckung
  12. Arktisforschung
  13. Veldwerk
  14. Expedities
  15. Archeologie
  16. Geologie
  17. Inuits > Canada
  18. Geschichte (1576-1578)
  19. Frobisher Bay (Nunavut : Bay) > Discovery and exploration > English
  20. Frobisher Bay (Nunavut : Bay) > Antiquities
  21. Frobisher Bay (T.N.-O.) > Antiquités
  22. Arctique > Découverte et exploration britanniques
  23. Atlantic Ocean > Frobisher Bay
  24. Kanada
  25. Frobisher (Canada ; Baie) > Antiquités
  26. Frobisher Bay (Nunavut : Bay) Antiquities
  27. Frobisher Bay (Nunavut : Bay) Discovery and exploration English
  28. Frobisher, Martin Sir ca. 1535-1594
  29. Inuit Nunavut Frobisher Bay Region Antiquities
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.