The Inuit, Yupik, Russian Eskimo and Cree Indian project is nearly done. These artifacts were donated by Dr.Drake (who I corresponded with) after his wife, Rosalie, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Dr.Drake traveled through Alaska, Canada and all the way to Siberia. He bought the handcrafts from the natives in small and medium sized villages. Occasionally from a small store. My job was to discover information on the objects and create a document cited by APA format. Excerpt:
This is a snowy owl pendant made from woolly mammoth tusks. They looked like elephants with long, shaggy, brown hair. Woolly mammoths died 12,000 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch (Thor, 2007). The plumage of snowy owls varies with age and sex. The young female is marked with more bars, while the young male has fewer bars. As the owls age, they become whiter, especially the males (Josephson, page 155).
The Owl Pendant (once Rosalie's) is pictured in my hand. The last part of the Inuit project was to measure all of the artifacts (details are important to scientists). It is now available online for teachers and professors to implement in classrooms.
http://byrdpolarmedia.osu.edu/^Link to the collection
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