IDNO

P.86159.PAT

Description

View along shoreline showing two kayaks propped upside down on a wooden support, and two wooden platforms constructed to be above head level with shark meat hanging over railing to dry - around which a dog walks. The edges of houses are just visible on the left, and rowboats and ships are moored in the harbour to the right. The hunted humpback whale seen in P.86142.PAT and P.86143.PAT is just visible in the shallow water.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Godhavn

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

15 - 24 July 1937

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image mounted in James Wordie’s 1937 album with the number and caption:
“July 15 - 24”
“208. House, shark-meat stands & kayak-stands - dead whale in harbour.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 9/3/2008]

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. 389-390 includes:
“Godhavn was reached on July 15, and preparations at once began for the first balloon flight. The weather at Disko is almost proverbial, and we had specially chosen Godhavn for our first attempts, as it offered an ample sector of open water for recovery of the balloon apparatus, and in addition to probable fine weather and a wide area of open sea there were the further advantages of a good anchorage, high ground for look-out purposes, and also prominent points which could be easily occupied as the ends of an observation base-line. ... A base was laid out, one end near where McClintock's Fox lies, her ribs and keel still exposed at low tide, the other about 1 mile distant across the harbour at the "watering place." ...
We left early on July 24 and during a day of mist and fog passed up the Vaigat, aiming to anchor at the western end of Nugssuak Peninsula”. [JD 14/2/2007]

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 7/2/2007]