IDNO

P.88540.PAT

Description

Inuit man sitting on one of two fully laden komatik (long sled) in front of encampment. The sleds have the harnesses in position but the dogs are not in place. Behind the sled stands a woman wearing a decorated amauti (see Notes field for a full description), a second woman carrying a child in her amaut (part of the amauti at the top back, below the hood), and a young child sitting on top of an igloo. The encampment consists of at least two igloos, and in the background a board balances on two barrels with supplies on top. A third woman is reaching up to the supplies, indicating that the supplies are being kept above shoulder level, and therefore probably food, as there are a number of dogs around the encampment. In the distance, the buildings of Clyde Post are just visible.

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 woman’s amauti (as seen in fuller detail in P.88502.PAT) is probably made from caribou fur with the hair on the exterior. Dark and pale bands are used to embellish the amauti, outlining a central and the side panels of the front, and also at elbows. The edges are outlined with narrow bands of dark and pale fur around hood, wrist and lower edge. The front has an elongated rectangular extension (known as a kiniq) with slight curved lower edge, and ends at the top of the thigh. The back flap (just visible) reaches the lower calf. (See Issenman 1997, pp. 142 - 151)
The women’s trousers are made from seal fur, ending at mid-calf, and embellished with pale and dark fur bands above and below the knees. [JD 15/11/2006]

Clothing: The man’s parka (as seen in fuller detail in P.88502.PAT) is made from pale cloth? with a narrow dark band outlining even base at front. The trousers are made from seal skin and end mid-calf. (See Issenman 1997, pp. 142 - 151). [JD 15/11/2006]

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]