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George Swinton fonds
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3rd Inuit Studies Conference

Items described here consist of a copy of the Conference Program for the 3rd Inuit Studies Conference sponsored by the Association Inuksiutiit Katimajit held in 1982 at London Ontario.

Alaska Festival of Music

Materials described here consist of items pertaining to a loan of Eskimo Graphics by George Swinton for display at festival

Art Educators of Minnesota Poster

Items described here consist of a copy of a poster for the Art Educators of Minnesota Conference held in Gull Lake MN, in April of 1968 and at which George Swinton was a feature presenter on the topic of 'Inuit (Eskimo) Art Today'. Ryan Larkin of the NFB was also a speaker at this conference.

Articles

Items found here consist of a copy of the article "The Preservation and Ethnohistory of a Frozen Historic Site in the Canadian Arctic" (1982) by Robert Janes and a number of articles from the journal Arch Environ Health with information on the Arctic environment.

Articles

Items described here consist of copies of the articles "Archaeological Survey Between Cape Parry and Cambridge Bay, NWT, in 1963" and "Thule Eskimo Prehistory of Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island, Canada" as well as others on northern climate archaeology.

Articles and Reviews

Materials described here consist of copies of articles and reviews written by Dr. Swinton, catalogue essays and copies of papers by others that may have been reviewed by Dr. Swinton. Also described here is correspondence pertaining to reviews.

Swinton, George

Art-In-Conference

Materials described here consist of copies of presentations given to the [Eskimo] Art-In-Conference which took place at the Winnipeg Art Gallery 3-5 May 1979 including:
-two speeches given by Marybelle Myers;
-"Personal Observation from Ten-Years Living and Working in the North" by Stanley Zazelenchuk;
-"Baker Lake Art and Artists" by Jack Butler;
-"Music of the Canadian Eskimos".\Also described here is a proposal for a book by Alootook Ipellie.

Artist Interviews: Kopakualook

The item described here is an interview of the carver Kopakualook by George Swinton. Swinton had just returned from a little island near Povungnituk where Kopakualook was the 'camp boss' and Kopakualook had returned to Povungnituk with him. Father Steiman acted as an interpreter.

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