@article {9711,
	title = {Ivory for the Sea Woman: The Symbolic Attributes of a Prehistoric Technology},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {1},
	year = {1977},
	pages = {141-149},
	abstract = {<p>An attempt is made to document the differential use of ivory and antler by craftsmen of the prehistoric Thule culture, the ancestors of the Arctic Inuit. The association of particular materials with certain classes of artifacts suggests that selection of raw materials may have involved other than empirically functional criteria. It is suggested that these materials may have had symbolic, as well as purely functional, attributes in the minds of Thule craftsmen, and that these attributes may have been part of a symbolic system ancestral to that which can be derived from an interpretation of historic Inuit myth and custom.</p>},
	author = {Robert McGhee}
}
