IDNO

P.86125.PAT

Description

Fisherman from a Portuguese dory trading/selling cod with crew and expedition members on the Isbjørn. The dory, with its sail wrapped around its mast and removed from its supports is lying in the prow alongside the catch of cod, is pulled up to the side of the Isbjørn. A combination of nine crew and expedition members, including Thomas Paterson with his camera, watch on.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Davis Strait

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Thomas Paterson

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

13 July 1937

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie; H. Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie; H. Carmichael; E. G. Dymond; T. C. Lethbridge, ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’ in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 92, No. 5. (Nov., 1938), pp. 385-418.
Text on pp. 388-389 includes:
“North of 64° we were on the cod banks, and passing sailing ships at anchor at intervals along a zoo-mile stretch. As a rule these were schooners and barquentines, old ships ending their days, the bigger ones under French or Portuguese flags, and the smaller ones from Nova Scotia or the Faeroes. These old-timers act as parent ships and the method of fishing is by hand-line from dories scattered over a wide area. In the mist we would come on the latter rising gently in the swell and labelled with the parent ship's insignia, such as a big Maltese cross, the parent ship in this case being the St. Maria Manauela, a steel-grey four-masted schooner from Oporto.”. [JD 13/2/2007]

Place: In the BFI’s synopses of Wordie’s 1937 film of Greenland, mention is made of footage of “Portuguese dorys” seen in Davis Strait. [Reel 1, 226 foot] [Source:
BFI, http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/14564?view=synopsis] [JD 13/2/2007]

P.86084.PAT to P.86583.PAT were found wrapped in the card now numbered C446/1/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 13/2/2007]