IDNO

P.86382.PAT

Description

Group of four Inuit children, all wearing checked cloth parkas, and with one holding a sledge dog puppy. A stony valley floor and hills are in the background.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; ?Siorapaluup Kangerlua [?Robertson Bay]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

?6 - 19 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 15”
“566. Girls.”
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 p. 396 includes:
“We returned to Thule on August 12 and re-embarked our four men. ... 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.
These Eskimo are known generally either as the Cape York Eskimo, or as the Polar Eskimo, the name preferred by Rasmussen, and are descendants of the natives discovered in 1818 by Sir John Ross, who in his picturesque way called them the Arctic Highlanders. In the next seventy years the tribe was seldom visited, except that Scottish whalers generally did a little bartering each year as they passed Cape York, while occasional hunters with their families assisted some of the polar expeditions of the latter half of the nine-teenth century, such as those of Kane, Hall, and Nares. By the end of the century however the Polar Eskimo became well known and famous as sledgers, as the outcome of Peary's many expeditions based on Smith Sound”.
[JD 12/2/2007]

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 20/12/2006]