Actually that material was first presented in 1945 in the joint US/UK/Ca Arctic Manual. The main editor/contributor was Vilhjálmur Stefánsson which meant that his work disappeared when he was denounced as a C**munist in 1951 which basically ended any interest in his excellent work in North America. The Arctic Manual is a great read, but hard to find in good condition.

Those who wrote it had all spend many many months on the land living with the Inuit/Dena, and other natives of the far north during the first three decades of the last century and all had a very scientific precision in information and diagrams that make it such a fine resource.