This range encompasses a period of significant change in the region: before and after regular European contact, before and after the introduction of new trade goods, in a period when the Indigenous societies of the Northwest Coast and interior subarctic were complex, dynamic, and engaged in extensive networks of exchange and social interaction.

He was not thousands of years old.

He was historical — a man who lived in a period that, depending on where in the range he falls, might overlap with the Renaissance, the Reformation, or the early years of European maritime exploration of the Northwest Coast.

Dressed For Both Worlds

The clothing and equipment found with Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi are among the most informative aspects of the entire discovery, because they preserve material evidence of his life in a way that transcends what bones or DNA can tell us.

The garments were made primarily from animal skins processed in ways consistent with Indigenous hide-working traditions of the region.