Betty Kobayashi Issenman
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Betty Kobayashi Issenman (1921 – March 10, 2020) was a Canadian ethnologist. As an independent researcher, she was an expert in
Inuit clothing Traditional Inuit clothing is a complex system of Winter clothing, cold-weather garments historically made from animal hide and fur, worn by Inuit, a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples inhabitin ...
. She was appointed as a member to the
Order of Canada The Order of Canada () is a Canadian state order, national order and the second-highest Award, honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ...
in 2002.


Selected publications

* '' Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing'' (University of British Columbia Press, 1997: )


References

1921 births 2020 deaths Canadian ethnologists Women ethnologists Members of the Order of Canada {{ethnologist-stub