Historical Artifacts

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Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Female Doll made of caribou skin, Nunatsiarmiut (Baffin Island Inuit), c.1914 (lemm.ee)

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Currently on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

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[–] glimse 9 points 2 days ago

Really amazing work. This post led me to the Wikipedia page for the Baffin Island and I will share some interesting facts I learned:

Baffin Island is the 5th largest island in the world
About 3/4 of its population is indigenous
It has a population is about 13,000 which is over half of the Arctic Archipelago as a whole
If it were a country, it would tie with Greenland for the lowest population density at .03/km².
Unrelated: There's a small island in Ireland called Boffin Island in English with a population under 200. The Gaelic name, Inishbofin, means "Island of the White Cow"

God I love Wikipedia