Arctic: Iceland and Greenland
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers / Series 1: Fieldwork and drafts
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-27, Subseries 1.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material in this sub-series is arranged alphabetically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This sub-series contains two notebooks documenting Carpenter's archaeological research and ethnographic field notes relating to Icelandic and Greenland settlement and exploration. The bulk of the archaeological notes document his research in museum and library collections and archives containing relevant artifacts and materials.

Of note in this sub-series are notes related to a 1993 ceremony at Qaanaaq (Thule), Greenland, in which the remains of four indigenous Inuit were interred after having been repatriated from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Related photographs can be found in Series 5: Personal: "Burial at Qaanaaq photos, 1993."