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Chapter X Final Conclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Frederica De Laguna
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In Attempting to analyze the various elements which belong to Tena culture we have purposely allowed ourselves to digress in order to discuss the possible origin and development of a number of traits that were only poorly represented in Tena culture, or even of those which we found no further up the Yukon than Fox Creek. But now we must return and try to place together the Tena elements in some sort of order. I must confess that my discussion has been perhaps too much from the point of view of Eskimo culture and not enough from the point of view of northern Athabaskan culture. This is in part the result of a personal bias, and in part because the literature is far fuller on Eskimo than on Athabaskan material culture and technology. On the other hand, it will by this time be quite evident that the Tena have been very strongly influenced by their Eskimo neighbors.

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Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 3: The Prehistory of Northern North America as Seen from the Yukon , 1947 , pp. 268 - 285
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1947

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References

1 Birket-Smith, 1929, II, p. 216.

2 Op. cit., II, p. 215. Cf. Collins, 1937 a, p. 382.

3 Birket-Smith, 1929, II, p. 226.

4 Hatt, 1916; Mathiassen, 1927, II, pp. 196-201; Collins, 1937 a, pp. 381 f.

5 See the additions Collins suggests to Birket-Smith's list of traits (Collins, 1937 a, p. 382).

6 Hatt, 1916; Hallowell, 1926; Birket-Smith and de Laguna, 1938, pp. 518 f.

7 Collins, 1937 a, p. 382: blunt bird arrow, wrist guard, sinew-backed bow (?), bird bola (?), crooked knife(?). The blunt bird arrow and sinew-backed bow may, however, have been present in the Old Bering Sea, cf. our Chapter IX, pp. 208, 209, 210, note 618.

8 Birket-Smith and de Laguna, 1938, p . 520.

9 Op., cil., p. 529.

10 American Antiquity, V; 3, 1940, p. 233.

11 Collins, 1937 a, p. 382.

12 Op. cit., p. 383.

13 Birket-Smith, 1929, II, p. 229; cf., 1936, pp. 180 f.