IDNO

P.88516.PAT

Description

Inuit group, consisting of three men, three women, and two girl, standing with dogs amongst snow in front of the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post at Clyde River. The group wear predominately traditional winter clothing (see Notes field for full details), with two of the women also wearing cotton skirts.

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: Two of the women’s and one of the girl’s amauti (woman’s parka with large hood for carrying a child) are of typical Nunatsiarmiut design. 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 amauti are outlined with narrow bands of dark- and light- coloured fur. (See Issenman 1997, pp. 142 - 151)
The third woman wears a caribou? skin fur with the hair interior. The amauti has a wide, roomy hood, is unadorned and finishes at the knee.
The second girl wears a caribou skin parka with the hair exterior, and ends at the thigh with pale fur bands and caribou skin fringe. [JD 17/11/2006]

Clothing: Two of the men wear pale coloured, possibly cloth?, parkas, with narrow dark bands at cuff and base. The third man wears parka with hair interior and unadorned except for narrow dark band at lower even base. [JD 17/11/2006]

Clothing: The group all predominantly wear seal-skin trousers that end at the knee, with de-haired seal-skin boots. [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]