IDNO

P.88493.PAT

Description

Inuit family group outside wooden and cloth round house? in rocky terrain, with the wooden buildings of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Clyde Trading Post in the background. To the right seated on rocks are an older man, supposedly aged 60 years , who wears traditional clothing, and a woman, wearing a mixture of traditional and European clothing. In the doorway of shelter are two children, and in front of the doorway is a young woman standing with her back to the camera in order to show the design of her amauti (woman’s parka with large hood for carrying a child).
[See Notes field for full description on amauti, JD 15/11/2006]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Nunatsiarmiut (southern 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]

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

Clothing: The woman’s amauti (woman’s parka with large hood for carrying a child) is of typical Nunatsiarmiut design; see Issenman 1997, pp. 142 - 151. The amauti is made from white seal skin or cloth with a pointed, wide, and roomy hood. 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 fur. (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.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]