IDNO

LS.20816.TC1


Description


Place

Arctic; ?N America; ?Asia


Cultural Affliation

?Inuit [historically Eskimo]


Named Person


Photographer

None


Collector / Expedition


Date


Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection


Source


Format

Lantern Slide Black & White


Primary Documentation


Other Information

It is unclear whether the photograph was taken in the North American or Asian Arctic.

Publication: ‘The Graphic Art of the Eskimo’ by W. J. Hoffman - Report U.S. National Museum 1895 (1897), p.791, fig 79, captioned ‘Engraving on bone’. [Available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_08582#page/n317/mode/2up/search/avocations, JD 27/2/2012]


FM:155466

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