Max Friesen fonds

Administrative / Biographical History: Max Friesen (1961- ) is an arctic archaeologist and a professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His research explores how the linkages between social organization, world view, economy, technology, environment, and landscape have shaped northern peoples’ lives over the past 5,000 years. Professor Friesen has done extensive research into Isaac Stringer's missionary work in the Mackenzie Delta in the 1890's.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of one article in typescript 35p. in length about the village of Kittigazuit. The article is a description and interpretation of Bishop Stringer's account of Kittigazuit, the largest and most important Inuvialuit site of the 19th century.