IDNO

P.88568.PAT

Description

Two sled-dog pups eating? surrounded by camp supplies and equipment.

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

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

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]

MAA Facebook: Image published on with the caption: "Welcome to Woof Wednesday!
Montague Ritchie here captures an intimate shot of athletes in training as they ‘carb load’ for upcoming races on Baffin Island (1934). They’ve got big paws to fill and they’ll need to rely on each other as teammates and brothers if they’re going to succeed. They follow their ancestors in competing and working in unforgiving climates. And their resilience to these conditions along with their ‘can-do’ attitude has led them to become one of the symbols of the Nunavut people.
Image:
Two sled-dog pups eating surrounded by camp supplies and equipment.
P.88568.PAT"
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This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 15/11/2006]