IDNO

P.88498.PAT

Description

Full-length portrait of an Inuit group consisting of three men, two women, and four boys, all wearing predominately traditional clothing (for a full description see the notes field). The group stands in a snow covered landscape, with a skin tent and dogs in the background and the buildings of Clyde Post in the distance.

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].

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 women’s amauti (woman’s parka with large hood for carrying a child) are of typical Nunatsiarmiut design; The amauti are made from seal skin with the fur inside, with elongated rectangular extension at the front (known as a kiniq), that comes to the top of the thigh. The amauti is outlined with narrow bands of dark- and light- coloured fur. (See Issenman 1997, pp. 142 - 151) [JD 15/11/2006]

Clothing: The men’s parkas are of a typical Nunatsiarmiut design.
Parka on left is possibly made from white seal-skin? with the hair interior. One worn in centre is an atigis (caribou clothing with hair against their skin). This parka has an attached hood and ends at the hip with an even base.
The trousers are possibly made from seal skin with pale and dark bands embellishing the areas above the knees. (See Issenman 1997, pp. 142 - 151) [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]