Anthropology

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and the women would be required to retrieve the animals for preparation. They would use the manufactured bags for the carrying of these animals. “Women were also in charge of maintaining the household, for gathering purposes, cooking meals, and caring for the children. They also were expected to carry some of the smaller items when the band relocated (James W. Vanstone 1965: 48).”

The museum exhibit displays handbags that women manufactured and pictures of ground pits that were used to cook in. The only time women and children were allowed to participate in a hunt was when the men required extra assistance in large ambushes on caribou herds. On the flats, women and children drove the caribou into areas of branched-in fences that were set with snares where the men waited nearby to shoot or spear them with long spears.

In the Urban Gallery of our museum, due to its importance, this technique of ambush hunting has an independent display case, complete with figurines. The immigrant Norwegian North American cultural display has very limited interpretations, and do not have any added displays to aid in the explanation of food procurement throughout the Norwegian culture.

The Chipewyan display outlines the clothing worn by both males and females accurately. This display has models showing women’s parkas and they also have pictures of caribou skin leggings that both men and women wore to keep warm. The Chipewyan display also incorporated a pair of moccasins. The display made reference to the fact that, “men’s moccasins were of...