Spring village in Dolphin and Union Strait, May, 1911. The snow roofs of the houses have been 

 caved in by the sun and replaced by caribou skins 



Nine bowmen in punsuit of a single ptarmigan. Dolphin and Union Strait, May, 1911 The 

 Coronation Gulf Eskimo did not know firearms but manufactured bows of driftwood strengthened 

 with sinew, the arrows tipped with copper although sometimes with iron or stone 



The Ktart of the expedition from CJoronation (iulf lu^ar thc^ month of the Coppermine Itiver for 

 the crossing of Victoria Lsland. [Mr. Stcifan.sson is at the lefl in the phot()grai)li 



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