IDNO

P.88511.PAT

Description

Full length portrait of Inuit man standing with his back to the camera with his arms held up to show the design on the back of his parka. According to Paterson the parka is part of late winter dress with the style being half Clyde design, and half Igloolik. (For full description of parka see the Notes field).

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Baffinland Inuit; Iglulingmiut (Igloolik 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 man’s outer parka is probably made from caribou fur with the hair on the exterior. The parka has an attached pointed hood, with a thin pale band for embellishment. There are three colour blocks of pale and dark fur on the back, two stripes of pale fur on upper arm, and pale fur trim around cuffs and edge of tail. The tail is a broad square cut finished with caribou skin fringe.
An image of a similar parka is published in Hall, Judy, 1994. Sanatujut: Pride in Women’s Work, pl. 33, with following information:
“The three white and brown colour blocks on the back ‘were formerly of religious meaning’ and ‘come from inland around Baker Lake’ (Michea 1955). ‘The long back tail was found particularly on Qairnirmiut men’s parkas from the area around Baker Lake’. (Birket-Smith 1945: 265)”.
[Although the parka published has a longer and narrower tail, the panels, hood, and fringing are the same. JD 16/11/2006]

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 15/11/2006]