IDNO

P.86460.PAT

Description

Group of two Iglulingmiut families from Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik), consisting of two men, two women - one carrying an infant in her amaut (part of the amauti at the top back, below the hood), four boys, and two young girls, standing in front of the doorway to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Post at Craig Harbour. The Iglulingmiut family members all wear white parkas (see Notes field for full descriptions) over either European trousers or printed cotton skirts, with de-haired skin boots.

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Craig Harbour; Pond Inlet [North West Territories; Mittimatalik]

Cultural Affliation

Inuit; Iglulingmiut

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

22 - 25 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 22 - 25”
“675 - 684 - The Craig Harbour Eskimo.”
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. 400 includes:
“Our plans did not include any long stay in Jones Sound, and our visit was primarily in order that we should make ourselves known at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police post at Craig Harbour, which, since the evacuation of Bache, is now the most northerly official station in Canada. The detachment consisted of Corporal Hamilton and Private McWhirter, and they had had with them as visitor for the winter Robert Bentham who was making geological and topographical maps of southern Ellesmere Land. Jones Sound however was clear of ice, and the intention of staying only a few hours was reconsidered. Paterson was left at the post with Corporal Hamilton to study the two Eskimo families from Ponds Inlet, who were with the Police, and we in exchange took on board McWhirter and Bentham and crossed in the night to the south side of the Sound, to Cape Sparbo, or to give it its older name, Cape Hardy.” [JD 30/11/2006]

Clothing: The women’s amauti (woman’s parka with large hood for carrying a child) are made from duffel? cloth with pointed, wide, and roomy hoods. The front has an elongated rectangular extension at the front (known as a kiniq), that comes to the top of the thigh. “The back flap reaches the lower calf and has a squared bottom edge. As it comes over the hip if narrows slightly, curves to a point part way down the length, then tapered with a slight curve to the base, the shape on each side consists of something like a shallow keel. ... ‘The woman’s amauti tail is square-cut in North Baffin - in Pangniqtuuq, Qikiqtarjuaq, Kangiglugaapik, and Mittimatalik. The points in the sides of the tail help with folding it up which we do when the ice is slushy’ (Jeela Alikatuktuk Moss-Davies, personal communication 1984, 1985).” The amauti is outlined with narrow bands of dark- light- coloured cloth bands. (Issenman 1997, p. 146) [JD 15/11/2006]

Bibliographical Reference: Issenman, Betty, 1997. Sinews of Survival (UBC Press, Vancouver)
Bibliographical Reference: Hall, Judy, 1994. Sanatujut: Pride in Women’s Work (Canadian Museum of Civilisation)

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]