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Female artefacts 24 May 2005
Anna McNamee travelled to Oxford to meet Dr. Laura Peers, a lecturer in Ethnology and a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Laura showed her two objects which she believes throw a light on two very different groups of women who lived during the 19th century.

They were united by the existence of the 'voyageurs' - these were the European, Native or Metis tradesmen who travelled Canada's vast rivers and waterways system bartering European goods for North American furs.


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