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The Yellowknife Historical Society, in the Northwest Territories, Canada, was first formed in 2002 as the NWT Mining Heritage Society and began planning for the creation of a mining museum for Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut as a whole.
Yellowknife [a] is the capital ... The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre is a museum containing exhibits of the history and culture of Inuit, ...
The historic Yellowknive tribe lived north and northeast of the Great Slave Lake (Tinde'e - "Great Lake") around the Yellowknife River and Yellowknife Bay (Wíílíídeh cho - "Inconnu River") and northward along the Coppermine River, northeast to the Back River (Thlewechodyeth or Thlew-ee-choh-desseth - "Great Fish River") [2] and east to the Thelon River. [3]
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC) (Centre du patrimoine septentrional Prince-de-Galles in French) is the Government of the Northwest Territories' museum and archives. Located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, the PWNHC acquires and manages objects and archival materials that represent the cultures and history of ...
A museum of human and natural history, it is the oldest continuously operating museum in Canada. Nova Scotia Museum: Multiple sites Nova Scotia: 1868 [note 1] 549,500 (2015) [note 2] [3] The museum is a decentralized museum system made up of 28 museums spread throughout the province. Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre: Yellowknife ...
Drummer by Karoo Ashevak. Karoo Ashevak (Inuktitut: ᑲᕈ ᐊᓴᕙ) (1940 – October 19, 1974) was an Inuk sculptor who lived a nomadic hunting life in the Kitikmeot Region of the central Arctic before moving into Spence Bay, Northwest Territories (now Taloyoak, Nunavut) in 1960. [1]
Ada Eyetoaq (alternatively: Eyetoaq Eyetoaq, Kingilik Eyetoaq, Iyi'tuaq Eyetoaq, Eeyeetoaq Eyetoaq, Eyeetoaq Eyetoaq, Eeyeetowak Eyetoaq, Iyi'tag Eyetoaq, Eetoowa Eyetoaq, Eyittuak Eyetoaq, Eeyeeteetowak Eyetoaq, Iti'tuaq, Eeeyeetowa, Eda [1]) (1934-2014) [2] [3] was a Baker Lake (Nunavut) Inuk artist who produced traditional Inuit art.
Northern Images is an art gallery in Yellowknife. [12] It sells Dene and Inuit art , including stone , ivory and bone carving produced from soapstone , walrus ivory , caribou antler , whalebone and muskox horn as well as limited edition prints and wallhangings, such as the Cape Dorset and Pangnirtung print collections.