Showing items 1 - 5 of 33 for : Uncategorized.
A knife with a curved steel blade, brass tang and wooden handle. It was used for over 40 years by Sarah Mangelana to cut up whales, fish, caribou, geese and seals, and for fleshing hides.
| Accession No. | 2005.013.003 |
| Maker | Mangelana, Raymond |
| Culture | Inuvialuit |
| Region | Inuvialuit |
| Location | Tuktoyaktuk, Western arctic coast |
| Date | 1960s |
Small surveying transits like this were carried into the field to make precision observations and sightings. This E.R. Watts & Sons unit was used by John Anderson-Thomson, an engineer and land surveyor in the NWT for 38 years from 1944 to 1982.
| Accession No. | 998.026.001 a-j |
| Maker | E.R. Watts & Son, London, England |
| Culture | Non-Indigenous |
| Region | North Slave |
| Location | Yellowknife, Great Slave Lake |
| Date | c. 1915 |
A brass telegraph from the M.V. Radium Gilbert. A ship's telegraph is used for communication between the bridge of the ship and the engine room. Operated by the Northern Transportation Company Ltd. from 1946 to 1980, the Radium Gilbert transported supplies and cargo to communities on Great Bear Lake, and uranium from Eldorado Mine.
| Accession No. | 980.056.001 a,b |
| Maker | Jos. Harper & Son Inc., New York, New York, USA |
| Culture | Non-Indigenous |
| Region | Sahtu |
| Location | Great Bear Lake |
| Date | 1946-1980 |
A prospector's kit holding bottles and vials of chemicals and assorted paraphernalia to assist in identifying mineral samples. The kit was used by Ken J. 'Curly' McDonald, a Yellowknife prospector.
| Accession No. | 981.059.003 a |
| Maker | McDonald, K.J. 'Curly' |
| Culture | Non-Indigenous |
| Region | North Slave |
| Location | Yellowknife, Great Slave Lake |
| Date | c. 1930-1981 |
An 'Edison Amberola 30' phonograph that played wax cylinders. The internal horn on this machine has been removed and the box is missing its wooden front grille. The 'Blue Amberol' cylinder on the playing cylinder is The Rocky Road to Dublin. This phonograph was used in Detah homes into the 1940s.
| Accession No. | X963.025.001 a,b |
| Maker | Thomas A. Edison Inc., Orange, New Jersey, USA |
| Culture | Dene |
| Region | North Slave |
| Location | Detah, Great Slave Lake |
| Date | 1915-1920s |
