<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PATTON, Katherine Department of Anthropology, McGill University</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">THE SYMBOLIC DIMENSIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL WHALE BONE IN THULE SEMI-SUBTERRANEAN DWELLINGS</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Halifax</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thule semi-subterranean dwellings are some of the most prominent features of the Arctic landscape. They have been studied from several perspectives such as construction techniques and social patterning. Symbolic dimensions have been rarely examined. All visible architectural whale bone incorporated within twenty-six semi-subterranean dwellings on southern Somerset Island were mapped to aid in the determination of patterns of whale bone use. Symbolic dimensions of whale bone use are determined within the context of North Alaskan ethnographic and oral historical sources.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>