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Physical descriptions of the Beechey Island headboards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2017

Todd Hansen
Todd Hansen*
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P.O. Box 32439, Tucson, AZ 85751, USA (thansen731@earthlink.net)
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Abstract

In August 2016, the author was able to personally examine the five Beechey Island Franklin era gravesite headboards, in the collections of the Government of Nunavut and currently preserved at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. Except for the inscriptions, there appears to be relatively little physical description actually published in the literature, and this article summarises those observations and some conclusions drawn from this examination.

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Research Article
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Polar Record , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , July 2017 , pp. 403 - 412
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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