IDNO

P.88553.PAT

Description

Inuit family? group of man, woman, and young girl, standing behind small pile of rocks and looking at arctic fox that has been caught in a gin trap that was hidden amongst the rocks. All three wear traditional winter clothing, and there is snow coverage on the ground.

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]

P.88490.PAT to P.88574.PAT were found in the album now numbered A.149.PAT.

Clothing: The woman wears an outer winter amauti constructed from caribou? skin with the hair exterior, and the darker fur central to the chest (and probably back). The amauti has a wide, roomy, and pointed hood, an arctic fox fur ruff at neck, a wide square extension at the front (known as a kiniq) that ends at knee, with the sides curving down to meet the back and form a bell-shape skirt that ends at the knee. The amauti are embellished with light and dark fur bands around hood, extending laterally from shoulder to elbow, around elbow and cuff, and around lower edge of parka, which is also finished with a caribou skin fringe. [JD 24/11/2006]

Clothing: The young girl wears a combination suit (atajuq) made from thin caribou summer fur with button opening at front. Rosie Iqallijuq from Igloolik explains, “A girl's atajuq usually had the slit at the front, because on the back, there was her little back flap, the aku. ... The little girls' outfits usually had attached hoods.” (Iqallijuq, 1997, Source: Igloolik Clothing, www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass) [JD 24/11/2006]

Clothing: The man wears a caribou skin parka with the hair exterior and pale fur trim around the hood and the even lower edges. Caribou fur mittens, trousers with pale and dark fur bands around the thigh and lower edge, and boots with dark fur squares down centre front. [JD 24/11/2006]

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)

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 15/11/2006]