ethnology museum

• Groups Unite to Bid On Famed Collection of Native Artifacts

One of the artifacts to be offered at the Oct. 5 sale by Sotheby's is a "magnificent" shaman's mask described by the auction house as "an extraordinary world-class work of art" and which is expected to fetch up to $1 million US. A "rare and important" war club and a stunning clan hat carved in the shape of a frog -- each worth about $500,000 -- stand out among the 56 other relics, which comprise a collection with "unparalleled artistic and historic value" and a total price estimated at more than $3 million US. We're certainly aware of the rapid approach of the date," Andrea Laforet, director of ethnology and cultural studies at the Museum of Civilization, told CanWest News Service. "The reality of the situation is that public institutions in Canada are not situated financially in such...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 11, 2009

• Around Canada

Susan Berry, the museum's curator of ethnology, said staff learned just two weeks ago that Sotheby's in New York was about to auction the ninth Earl of Southesk's collection. Since then, Ottawa anted up $600,000 and Alberta added $500,000 to buy the items. The news release said [Stephen Harper] was "weighing in" on scandals and corruption involving several high-ranking public servants, "steamy sex affairs," drug trafficking, prostitution and other illegal activities. That is a trend we're watching and monitoring and has the potential to cause us some serious problems," [Giuliano Zaccardelli], commissioner of the RCMP, told senators on an anti-terrorism committee.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 06, 2009

• Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan.

... & McIntyre; Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization; Seattle: University of Washington... Thompson, curator of Western Subarctic ethnology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, has to her...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2009, March 2009

• A commercial harvesting prosecution in context: the Peter Paul case, 1946.

... renown as a consultant on the language, ethnology and craft of Malecites, the St John valley tribe o... Lewis Paul, 1902-1989 (Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1993) at 9, 22, 30 [Teeter]. . (2...

• University of New Brunswick Law Journal
• Nbr. 55, January 2006

• Subsistence and the social economy of Canada's Aboriginal north.

...Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethnology. Wenzel, George W. 1991. Animal right...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2009, March 2009

• Benoit v. Canada, 2002 FCT 243 (2002)

...McCormack was the Curator of Ethnology at the Provincial Museum of Alberta. From 1994 to ...

• Federal Court

• The life and death of Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi, an ancient frozen body from British Columbia: clues from remains of plants and animals.

... and taken to the Royal British Columbian Museum in Victoria where it was examined by an anatomist,... National Museum of Man, Publications in Ethnology No. 6 (1), National Museum of Canada, Ottawa. . Mo...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2008, January 2008

• &Amp;Quot;Loss of Nativeness&Amp;Quot; Focus of Presentation

The catalytic event that has driven him to share information about nativeness and native languages occurred in 1968, when he visited the students in a Grade 5 classroom in North York, who had been studying natives, their lifestyle and their culture.

...From 1970 to 1994, he worked in the ethnology department of the Royal Ontario Museum, and he has...

• Brandon Sun, The
• August 29, 2009

• Reborn to New Glory: The British Museum Reading Room

... with the Museum's Department of Ethnology library, it now forms the Anthropology Library, wi...

• Feliciter
• Vol. 52 Nbr. 2, March 2006

• The role of glacial lakes in the pre-contact human history of southwest Yukon territory: a late drainage hypothesis.

...Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, No. 192. Government Printing Office, Was... Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada. Contract # 163...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2008, January 2008