IDNO

P.88163.PAT

Description

Four Inuit children (three boys? and one girl?) constructing an igloo. All wear traditional caribou skin parkas, three with the hair interior and one with the hair exterior, fur mittens, caribou skin trousers, and caribou? skin boots. (See Notes field for a full description of clothing.) The children are using a variety of tools, including metal saw, shovel, and picks, to work the ice, and several finished shaped blocks of ice are in the foreground. In the background is a completed igloo.

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Clyde River (Kanngiqtugaapik); Clyde Post [North West Territories]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Ritchie, Montague H.W.

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thomson [from James Wordie’s Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land, 1934]

Date

?23 - 31 August 1934

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Percy Cox; C. T. Dalgety; H. R. Mill ‘An Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land: Discussion’ in The Geographical Journal Vol. 86, No. 4 (Oct., 1935), pp. 313-316. [JD 20/10/2006].

Photographer: Note in above article, page 313, accredits all photographs to M.H.W. Ritchie unless otherwise stated. However, as the majority of the prints in A.149.PAT are copy prints and appear to show Clyde Post over the seasons, it is possible that the images are from another expedition and compiled by Paterson into this album on Clyde Post. Two possible expeditions are Thomas Paterson’s expedition to Pelly Bay in 1947, or the Arctic Institute of North America’s Baffin Island Expedition 1950 led by Patrick Baird (See The Baffin Island Expedition, 1950, by P. D. Baird, in The Geographical Journal (Sept 1952, Vol. 24, No 1) pp. 47-59. Available on www.jstor.org) [JD 15/11/2006]

Clothing: The girl’s parka is constructed from caribou skin with the hair interior. The narrow hood has decorative embellishment around the edge, possibly embroidery? or leather patchwork?, and a kiniq (elongated extension at the front) with curved edges, which ends with a plain edge at top of the thighs. [JD 22/11/2006]

Clothing: The boys wear three different styles of parkas.
The boy in centre wears a plain caribou skin with the hair interior, an even base, and no splits or embellishments.
The boy on the right wears a caribou skin parka with the hair interior, a central frontal split, and a pale narrow band around edge of hood and the even base, which finishes at the top of the thighs with caribou skin fringe.
The boy on left wears a caribou skin parka with the hair exterior. The parka has central and side splits, and is embellished with pale and dark fur bands on the sleeves, and pale fur trim around the hood, and even lower base, which finishes mid-thigh with a caribou skin fringe. [JD 22/11/2006]

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.88162.PAT to N.88196.PAT were found in the box now numbered C446/30/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 19/12/2006]