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
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
"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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Keep me warm one night: early handweaving in eastern Canada
Study of traditional handweaving as it was practised in Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic Provinces up to 1900.
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