IDNO

P.86288.PAT

Description

View from behind Qaanaaq [Thule] Trading Post, showing stacks of supplies and timber. Three houses are in the mid-distance and in the background a large circular hill with smooth sloping sides and a tabletop plateau.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Qaanaaq [Thule]

Cultural Affliation

Inuit; Inughuit [historically Polar Kalaallit; Polar Eskimo]

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

5 - 13 August 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:
“August 5 -13.”
“439. Thule Umanak - morning.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 7/3/2008]

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 p. 392 and p. 395 includes:
“Then the weather improved again and on August 6 we arrived at Thule in still weather and bright sunshine. ... We returned to Thule on August 12 and re-embarked our four men. ... Next day one of Carmichael's instruments was flown from Thule and retrieved south of Wolstenholme Island, and the ship then proceeded north, and round Cape Parry into Whale Sound of Baffin and Inglefield. We anchored for a night on the north side of McCormick Bay, and on the 15th a call was made at Robertson Bay for a few hours, and a last contact made with David Haig-Thomas and J. W. Wright, who were to winter there preparatory to making a long sledge journey into Ellesmere Land. We had previously been in touch with them and their third man, Hamilton, in the Vaigat, at Upernivik, and at Thule. We were also attracted to Robertson Bay by its being the most northerly permanent Eskimo settlement, now that Etah is no longer occupied in winter, and Paterson was anxious to have this chance of meeting the Robertson Bay hunters, to supplement his observations at the Thule post”. [JD 8/3/2007]

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]