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Circumpolar Digital Image Collection
The Circumpolar Digital Image Collection is a collection of photos, slides, other images and contributions shared by many of the University of Alberta’s polar researchers. Images in the collection may be used for teaching and research purposes. For any other use, please contact the Canadian Circumpolar Institute.
Items in this Collection
- 142015/07/08
- 12Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 12Photographs
- 2Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife - Legislative Assembly Buidling
- 2Northern Gardens - Canada
- 2Public Art - Yellowknife, NWT
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2015-07-08
White birch is common across Northern Canada.
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2015-07-08
This hair of a 36,500 year old bison was preserved in permafrost and found in 2007 by Shane Van Loon. It is currently on display at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. Interpretive signs in the Museum tell us that the hair colour is similar that seen on European cave paintings of...
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2015-07-08
This is the skin of a 36,500 year old bison that was preserved in permafrost and found by Shane Van Loon in 2007.
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2015-07-08
This steppe bison skull is at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NWT. The bison skeleton with skin, hair and flesh attached was found by Shane Van Loon in 2007 emerging from an eroding riverbank. The skull is 36,500 years old.