IDNO

P.86340.PAT

Description

Possibly the remains of an Inuit house? consisting of floor flagstones placed level and in circular pattern; set in stony landscape. A flask? has been placed on one of the central flagstones to provide a scale.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; West Greenland; McCormick Fjord; McCormick Bay; Robertson Bay

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

14 - 15 August 1937

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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. 396 includes:
“We returned to Thule on August 12 and re-embarked our four men. Dymond had meantime recovered his apparatus, and found that the faults were due to overheating by the sun's rays, and at least one further flight was necessary. 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. “ [JD 8/2/2007]

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]