IDNO

P.88491.PAT

Description

Inuit woman, wearing a mixture of traditional and European clothing, smoking a pipe while sitting on rock in front of wooden and cloth round house? in rocky terrain.

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Baffinland Inuit

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

Album 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] Photograph published on p. U20 with caption “Eskimo at Clyde Post, Baffin Land”.
Text on p.312 includes:
“We had hoped to see more of the Eskimo and to judge how the Canadian methods compare with the Danish. When we first arrived however there was only one tent at the Post, but later this single family was joined by an old couple, of whom the man, aged sixty, proudly claimed that he had never been hungry throughout his life, an unusual record for any hunter and especially among the Eskimo”. [JD 23/10/2006]

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie ‘An Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land’ in The Geographical Journal Vol. 86, No. 4 (Oct., 1935), pp. 297-313. Images P.88491.PAT and P.88491.PAT published on p. U20 with caption “Eskimo at Clyde Post, Baffin Island.” [JD 24/10/2006]

Photographer: Note in above article, page 313, accredits all photographs to M.H.W. Ritchie unless otherwise stated. [JD 18/10/2006]

P.88490.PAT to P.88574.PAT were found in the album now numbered A.149.PAT.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 20/10/2006]