Ipiutak and the Arctic whale hunting culture

Larsen, Helge Eyvin; Rainey, Froelich G. (Froelich Gladstone)

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Ipiutak and the Arctic whale hunting culture

[s.n.] • 42 • Published In 1948 • Pages: 276 , plates

By: Larsen, Helge Eyvin, Rainey, Froelich G. (Froelich Gladstone).

Abstract
This is the classic study on Ipiutak archaeology done by Larsen and Rainey at Point Hope, Alaska, in 1939-1941.The data gathered from the excavations at this site have helped to clarify many of the previously held theories about the origin of the Eskimo in the American Arctic. Excavations at the site have produced some 10,000 artifacts as well as 500 skeletal remains (p.5). The detailed laboratory analysis of the cultural artifacts, combined with supplementary library research, forms the bulk of this document. The authors' analysis of Ipiutak culture, is based primarily on their interpretation of house types, burial patterns, and the functional use of stone, bone, and ivory weapons and tools in the society. Other cultural types at Point Hope are also discussed in this work such as the Near Ipiutak and Arctic Whale Hunting Cultures. A series of 101 plates will be found at the end of this study illustrating much of the discussion on material culture presented in the text.

Bone, horn, and shell technology

Burial practices and funerals

Typologies and classifications

Archaeological inventories

Norton

Region

North America