IDNO

P.88445.PAT

Description

Half-length group portrait of older Aivilingmiut woman and second Inuit woman, both with kakiniit (facial tattoos) annotated as being “tribal markings”, standing with European man in European clothing. The woman on the left wears a caribou skin parka with the hair interior and straps for supporting child across the chest. A large silver cross is pinned to one of the straps. The older woman wears European clothing. The group stands in front of a wooden building (possibly the Roman Catholic Mission?) at Repulse Bay.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Aivilingmiut

Named Person

Photographer

Paterson, Thomas Thomson

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thomson [from 1947 Dew Line Survey]

Date

3 August - 19 September 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]