COPPER

Object/Artifact

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

COPPER

Entry/Object ID

143/5413

Description

Native copper piece

Collection

NATIVE AMERICAN

Made/Created

Place

Continent

North America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Location

Coronation Gulf

Country

Canada

Culture/Tribe

Copper Inuit

Native American

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Copper

Parts

Count

Material

COPPER

Condition

Overall Condition

Poor

Provenance

Notes

THIS SHEET OF COPPER CAME FROM FIVE MILES INLAND FROM POINT PIERCE, NEAR CORONATION GULF, VICTORIA LAND (NORTH OF HUDSON BAY REGION). V. STEFANSSON, SAYS THAT THE COPPER ESKIMO MADE COPPER IMPLEMENTS FROM A METALLIC COPPER CHUNK LARGER THAN A PIANO. CAPTAIN KLINKENBERG WAS THE ONLY PRECEDING WHITE MAN TO VISIT THIS REGION, AND HE SPOKE OF SEEING A MOUNTAIN OF COPPER.