DCHP-3

Copper Eskimo

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

See quotes.

Quotations

1884
KIDNELIK. A tribe of Central Eskimos living on Coronation gulf, Arctic ocean [called] Copper Eskimo.
1922
The main sources of information for all that relates to the ethnology of the Copper Eskimos are the works of Mr. V. Stefansson, the commander of the Canadian Arctic Expedition.
1965
The Holman artists are a small group of five in an isolated community of 125 Eskimos. A part of this group is known as the Copper Eskimos because they fashioned their tools and weapons from native copper.