IDNO

P.88574.PAT

Description

Two Inuit men, one older, posing on beach with pole of caught fish (possibly Arctic char?), and a girl holding one large fish. All three hold leisters (three pronged fishing-spears, see Notes field for further details) and stand in front of a beached whale-boat? with three other boats in background. The older man wears European clothing, the younger man a white parka over European trousers, and the girl, a caribou skin parka with the hair exterior and pale fur bands around the hood and even base forming skirt. All three wear de-haired seal skin boots.

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]

Description: “A leister, or pronged fishing-spear, is also used. The handle, often 12-16 feet long, is of wood; the best side pieces are made of musk-ox horn which is shaped after being immersed in hot water. Since musk-oxen are confined to the central mainland and northern islands, caribou antler is the common substitute”. p. 139 [Source: Hunting Implements and Methods of the Present-Day Eskimos of North-West Hudson Bay, Melville Peninsula, and South-West Baffin Island, by T. H. Manning
The Geographical Journal © 1944 The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), pp. 137-152] [JD 27/11/2006]

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]