IDNO

P.88666.PAT

Description

Elevated view of river through rolling topography, probably of coastal plains around Kogalu River?, with snow covered hills in the background, (possibly the hills named ‘Sledge Pointers’? by Wordie).

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Eglinton Fiord; Southwest Ravenscraig; ?Kogalu River [North West Territories]

Cultural Affliation

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

13 - 30 August 1934

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Paterson, T. T., Part 2, Part 3, Geology (no date, circa 1936). [JD 9/11/2006]

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie ‘An Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land’ in The Geographical Journal Vol. 86, No. 4 (Oct., 1935), pp. 297-313. Text on p. 310 states:
“On entering Eglinton Fjord we anchored at Ravenscraig Harbour ... The characteristic mountain outline in these parts however, as already mentioned, is the boss-like hill, typified by Cape Eglinton and recurring over a broad stretch about 10 miles in breadth, its gentle contours and sporadic nature being in contrast to the lower-lying and only minutely irregular outwash plain towards the coast. The two hills which I have called the Sledge pointers, so named as the Eskimo steer by them on leaving the coast, are representative specimens. Paterson gave much of his time to a study of this peculiar mountain form and concluded that the outline is due to frost weathering”. [JD 20/10/2006]

Photographer: Note in above article, page 313, accredits all 1934 photographs to M.H.W. Ritchie unless otherwise stated. [JD 18/10/2006]

Place and Date: This photograph was possibly taken during the Heimen’s voyage up the east coast of Baffin Island, exploring Clyde Inlet, Eglinton Fiord, and connecting areas between the 13th - 30th August, 1934. [JD 13/12/2006]

P.88656.PAT to P.88712.PAT were found in the box now numbered C446/33/2/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 21/12/2006]