IDNO

P.88512.PAT

Description

Full length portrait of three Inuit women, Etotuk’s wife and two daughters, standing in front of supplies and a building at Clyde Post. According to Paterson the women’s amauti are of the Arctic Bay style, and are probably of late winter dress. (For full description of amauti see the Notes field).

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Baffinland Inuit

Named Person

Etotuk

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 noted by Paterson of being Arctic Bay style. Two of the amauti are made from caribou skin with the hair exterior, and one with hair interior.
The amauti on left has a pointed hood, pale and dark fur bands across the shoulders, colour block as central panel in the back finished with tassel? at waist. The tail appears to be curved on sides and tapering to end at mid-calf, with the edge trimmed with pale fur and caribou skin fringe.
The amauti in centre has a narrow hood with a tassel on each side, banding across upper arm, and with a short, narrow, square tail. The amauti appears to curve up at back to end at waist with the tail ending at top of thigh. The back edge is trimmed with pale fur and caribou skin fringe.
The amauti on right has a wider hood, no embellishment, and ends at knee with an even base finished with fringe. [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 15/11/2006]