The Noice collection of Copper Inuit material culture

By James W. VanStone

Subjects: Eskimos, Field Museum of Natural History, Catalogs and collections, Catalogs, Copper Eskimos, Material culture, Ethnological collections

Description: The collections of the Field Museum of Natural History contain 234 ethnographic objects collected among the Copper Inuit of the Northwest Territories, Canada, in 1919-1921 by Harold Noice. The artifacts in this collection are described and illustrated. For comparative purposes, information is included from previous studies of Copper Inuit material culture, notably those of Stefansson (1914), Birket-Smith (1945), and Jenness (1946).