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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Northwest Coast"”.
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Beyond lip service : an analysis of labrets and their social context on the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia
… social context of the labret (lip plug) on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia over the last 5,000 years. Although labrets have typically been characterized as markers of ‘status’ with connotations of gender, the variability in observations made by early explorers and ethnographers suggests …
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To Impersonate the Supernatural: Music and Ceremony of the Bella Bella/Heiltsuk Indians of British Columbia
… significant musical and ceremonial group on the Northwest Coast during the nineteenth century, and (2) that there are strong relationships between Heiltsuk musical patterning and other systems of relationships in Heiltsuk culture. The study is organized into four main parts: The …
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Paleogenomics in the Americas: demography, adaptations, and resilience
… possible through the collaborative efforts of Northwest Coast First Nations. The first topic presented here focuses on the highly debated processes behind the initial peopling of the Americas and, more specifically, the Northwest Coast. Over the past decades, this region has received a great …
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'They Were Known Accordingly’: The Journey of the Land Otter Pole and Memorial Pole at the Denver Art Museum
… Gyáa’ang) were re-raised in the renovated Northwest Coast gallery of the Denver Art Museum. Lee Wallace and his family, descendants of Haida carver Dwight Wallace and Dwight’s son John Wallace, led a ceremony that publicly acknowledged the Wallace family’s connection to the two poles, …
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Taxonomic studies on the genus Podocotyle (Trematoda: opecoelidae)
… were also reported from fishes of the Pacific Northwest coast by Ching (1960), Pratt and McCauley (1961), Arai (1969), and Hall and Pratt (1969), it was decided to expand the investigation to include these forms and other Podocotyle spp, from coastal areas of the world in an attempt to …
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Determination of Site Functionality and Subsistence Patterns at the Bray Archaeological Site (45PI1276) in Edgewood, Washington
… is first evident for marine resources of the Northwest Coast during the Locarno Beach Phase (LBP) (ca. 3,500 BP to ca. 2,400 BP). Plant resource intensification is evident by 4,000 BP within the interior of the Pacific Northwest, but until recently there has been little evidence to support …
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Understanding the source and distribution of marine macro-plastics in coastal environments
… litter can enter the open ocean directly, or via coastal waters and then through numerous hydrological processes is transported to the open ocean, and potentially dispersed vast distances. The spatial and temporal variability of plastic marine litter is complex due to the interaction between …
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Creole identity: a post-colonial research in contemporary Mauritius
… professionals from urban peripheries and the coastal region of Riviere Noire on the northwest coast. The document analysis included official and unofficial documents, position papers, academic research, local histories, press and media articles, speeches, archival records, and policy …
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Paleocene Turbidite Deposition in the Central American Seaway (NW Costa Rica): Geochemical Analysis and Provenance of Detrital Spinel and Clinopyroxene
… zone, and the Santa Elena peninsula is on the northwest coast of Costa Rica next to the Sandino forearc basin. This study focuses on the origin and provenance of the Paleocene deep water Rivas and Descartes turbidites that crop out on the northern part of the Santa Elena peninsula in …
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Investigating blue and fin whale populations through passive acoustic monitoring using ocean bottom seismometers
… a pair of large OBS networks off the Pacific Northwest coast. I characterize the behavior of an understudied subpopulation of NEP blue whales that skip southward migration to investigate how they are using the temperate habitat while they overwinter. Behavioral metrics indicate that …
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Sheltering colonialism: the archaeology of a house, household, and white Creole masculinity at the 18th-century Little Bay Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies
… the Caribbean Sea at Little Bay on the northwest coast of Montserrat in the British Leeward Islands was destroyed by fire and never reoccupied. Archaeological excavations in 2010 and 2011 yielded fragments of personal adornment, dress, household furnishings, and the house containing them …
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Transcending Time: The Impact of Contact on Houses and Social Behaviour at an Ethnographic Village Site in the shíshálh Nation
The ethnographic village of ts’unay is one of the shíshálh Nation’s first four villages of creation. No archaeological work had been done at ts’unay as of 2020, so at the request of the Nation research was conducted to fill this gap in knowledge as the basis for this thesis. Findings were that …
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“We Look to the Water”: Coastal Erosion and the Transformation of shíshálh Cultural Landscapes
… heritage sites and cultural landscapes on the coast of British Columbia until very recently. The shíshálh Nation is one community whose archaeological sites and cultural landscapes represent shíshálh occupation since time immemorial and are at risk of shoreline retreat within this century. By …