IDNO

P.88514.PAT

Description

Inuit man standing in snowy landscape while smoking a pipe, and holding a knife in one hand, and killed ermine in other. He wears a caribou skin parka, trousers, and boots with the hair exterior. The parka’s hood is edged with ermine?, tied at waist, and the even lower base ends at thigh with pale fur trim and caribou skin fringe.

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 boots worn are made from caribou skin with the hair exterior. According to the Arctic clothing website at the British Museum, “When hunting on the land, his overshoes would be of caribou skin ... [as] caribou skin boots get wet more easily than seal skin boots when used on the ice”. [Source: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass, JD 17/11/2006]

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]