IDNO

P.88443.PAT

Description

Head and shoulders portrait of Niaqukittuq, an older Aivilingmiut woman with kakiniit (facial tattoos) annotated as being “tribal markings”. She wears European clothing and stands in front of a wooden building (possibly the Roman Catholic Mission?) at Repulse Bay. [Niaqukittuq was identified by Deborah Webster, an anthropologist, writer and curator originally from Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake), Nunavut, JD 14/11/2024]

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Naujaat [North West Territories; Repulse Bay]

Cultural Affliation

Inuit; Aivilingmiut

Named Person

Niaqukittuq

Photographer

Paterson, Thomas Thomson

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thomson [from 1947 Dew Line Survey]

Date

29 August 1947

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.88443.PAT to N.88452.PAT were found in the print wallet now numbered C446/32/9/, which was found in the envelope now numbered C446/32/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 4/1/2008]