Dorothy K. Burnham Books

To Please the Caribou: Painted Caribou-Skin Coats Worn by the Naskapi, Montagnais, and Cree Hunters of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula
To Please the Caribou: Painted Caribou-Skin Coats Worn by the Naskapi, Montagnais, and Cree Hunters of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula

By Dorothy K. Burnham

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The caribou hunt was an essential form of life support for the Naskapi, Montagnais, and Cree hunters of the vast Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. The hunters believed that if they honored their quarry by...

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Fascinating challenges
Fascinating challenges

By Judy Thompson

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"In 1990, Dorothy Burnham, a renowned authority on textiles and former curator at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, began work with three curators at the Canadian Ethnology Service of the Canadi...

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Warp & weft
Warp & weft

By Dorothy K. Burnham

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Keep me warm one night: early handweaving in eastern Canada
Keep me warm one night: early handweaving in eastern Canada

By Harold B. Burnham

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Study of traditional handweaving as it was practised in Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic Provinces up to 1900.

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Cut My Cote
Cut My Cote

By Dorothy K. Burnham

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Warp and weft
Warp and weft

By Dorothy K. Burnham

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Unlike the lilies
Unlike the lilies

By Dorothy K. Burnham

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