NWT archives: Fort Rae Heritage caribou project Photos and captions provided by the NWT Archives

Abstract

In 1978, a skills workshop in Behchoko (then called Fort Rae) brought together about a dozen women who worked to produce traditional objects, specifically for museums and other collections. By April 1978, five months after the project started, the group had scraped and processed about 300 caribou skins, making them into clothing, tents, and other traditional items. Many of these items were purchased by the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Museum and are still on display today.
These images are part of the Native Press photograph collection at the NWT Archives and were originally published in the Native Press newspaper on April 14, 1978.
Photo credit: CREDIT: NWT Archives/Native Communications Society fonds - Native Press photograph collection/N-2018-010: 5196, 5197, 5198, 5199, 5200
Photographer: Tessa Macintosh