Mammals of Ungava & Labrador : the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge /

Mammals of Ungava & Labrador : the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan), author.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, in association with the Arctic Studies Center, [2014]
Description:	lii, 384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.
Subject:	Turner, Lucien M. -- (Lucien McShan) -- Travel -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula. Turner, Lucien M. -- (Lucien McShan) -- Diaries. Turner, Lucien M. -- (Lucien McShan) Inuit -- Ethnozoology -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula. Indians of North America -- Ethnozoology -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula. Indians of North America -- Ethnozoology -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador. Mammals -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula. Mammals -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador. Inuit -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula -- Social life and customs. Indians of North America -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula -- Social life and customs. Indians of North America -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- Social life and customs. Inuit -- Ethnozoology. Inuit -- Social life and customs. Mammals. Travel. Québec -- Ungava Peninsula.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9903303

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Varying Form of Title:	Mammals of Ungava and Labrador
Other authors / contributors:	Heyes, Scott A., editor. Helgen, K. M. (Kristofer M.), editor. Arctic Studies Center (National Museum of Natural History)
ISBN:	9781935623212 (hardback) 1935623214 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-383).
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"--

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Summary:	In 1882 the Smithsonian Institution Arctic scientist, Lucien McShan Turner, traveled to the Ungava District that encompasses Northern Quebec and Labrador. There 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 Fort Chimo in Ungava Bay, now the Inuit community of Kuujjuaq, he soon tired of his primary task and expanded his duties to a study of the natural history and ethnography of the Aboriginal peoples of the region.<br> <br> His ethnography of the Inuit and Innu people was published in 1894, but his substantial writings on 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 regions. His writings provide a glimpse of the habits and types of mammals that roamed Ungava 125 years ago in what was an unknown frontier to non-Inuit and non-Innu people.
Physical Description:	lii, 384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-383).
ISBN:	9781935623212 1935623214