Arctic: Inuit/Aivilik
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 1948-1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-27, Subseries 1.1
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 documents Carpenter's research and perspective into the culture of the Aivilik Inuit (or, "Eskimo"). The material consists of handwritten and typewritten notes; paper and essay drafts; correspondence; photographs; and drawings. Of special interest in the sub-series are notes related to the Inuktitut language and a 1950 census of the Inuit population on Southampton Island in Canada.

Also of note are files related to the Aivilik hunter Ohnainewk (also called Harry Gibbons, Aninouek, and Onainewk), including biographical information on Gibbons as well as Carpenter's handwritten copy of Gibbons' 1945-1948 diary. Carpenter published a chapter on Ohnainewk in the 1960 anthology In The Company of Man: Twenty Portraits by Anthropologists (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers).