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Article: Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island 1883-1884: journals and letters.
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- September 1, 2000
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FRANZ BOAS AMONG THE INUIT OF BAFFIN ISLAND 1883-1884: JOURNALS AND LETTERS. Edited by LUDGER MULLER-WILLE and translated by WILLIAM BARR. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8020-4150-7. xvi + 284 p., maps, b&w illus., appendices, glossary, bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$50.00.
Over the years while working at Clyde River, I have often wondered as I travelled southward to Henry Kater Peninsula and into Home Bay if my camp was in a place that Boas had visited during his longest foray north from Cumberland Sound. Certainly when I first came to Clyde, Boas's ethnographic observations and major map aided many of my first inquiries about Inuit history and ...