Imitation Inuit artifacts are everywhere, but a new treaty is trying to change that
By Samuel Wat World Intellectual Property Organization passed treaty to protect some traditional knowledge Imitations of Inuit art and artifacts
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Book recovered from Franklin ship could show whether other written items are salvageable: historian
A leather-bound folio found in one of Capt. John Franklin’s doomed ships might just show how recoverable other documents might be
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33-month sentence in theft of ancient mammoth tusk in Alaska
The case of a fossilized mammoth tusk stolen in Anchorage, Alaska last year has finally come to a close. On
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Inuit art curator wants to bring traditional art back to Canada’s eastern Arctic
The curator of Inuit art for the Government of Nunavut, in Northern Canada, has a job sorting through thousands Inuit
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Human remains and artifacts left at doorstep of Canadian Inuit organization
A box containing human remains was dropped off anonymously at the Ottawa offices of a national organization representing Inuit on
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Eroding Arctic Alaska river opens window to past
A river on Alaska’s North Slope is eroding along one of its sections faster than that of any river in
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