Contact Era Hide Working and Traditional Tool Use on the Northwest Plains

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Title: Contact Era Hide Working and Traditional Tool Use on the Northwest Plains
Creator: Elliott, Jack
Subject: Hide Working, Traditional Tools, Bone, Hivernant, Wintering Sites
Description: In this essay, archaeologist Jack Elliott traces the continued use of pre-Contact hide-scraping tools by Indigenous peoples living on the Plains. Elliott merges oral history and archaeological evidence to document why traditional tools have been used by Aboriginal peoples since Contact, long after iron tools have been available.
Date: Post-Contact-Present Day
Type: Text Document
Date of Copyright: March 20, 2014
Coverage: Western Canada; US Great Plains
GDI Media Filename: Contact Era Hide Working & Trad. Tool Use on the NW Plains.pdf

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