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Album 38, Eastern Arctic Patrol [graphic material]

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Date:

1948.

Reference:

R216, Volume number: 14977

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

204925

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Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development fonds

Northern Affairs Program sous-fonds

Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch

Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch: Photographs

Departmental library albums

Album 38, Eastern Arctic Patrol
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Date(s):

1948.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 album (164 photographs) : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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This album, comprised of 58 pages on which 164 photographs are mounted, contains the very same photographs as album 37; they have just been developed into larger photos. To be more specific, it is the first thirty (30) pages of album 37, which is the 1948 Eastern Arctic Patrol expedition and provides more detailed, informal commentary by S.J. Bailey. There are approximately a dozen photographs that are not in album 37, but are of similar scenes. The only images that are in this album and not the other are icebergs.

The following places can be found in the album: Cape Dorset; Chesterfield Inlet; Eskimo Point; Wakeham Bay; George's River; Port Harrison; Repulse Bay; Southampton Island; Fort Chimo.

The following events can be found in the album: priest playing ball with Inuit children; Inuit playing pool; issuing Family Allowances to Inuit; Inuit playing music, dancing; Inuit women's domestic activities; unloading freight; teaching Inuit to read and write in English; drying caribou meat.

The following objects can be found in the album: "Regina Polaris"; kayaks; fishing and whale boats; fish net; grave of Mrs. M. Clay (1924 husky attack); Family Allowances poster; dining house and huts from American Air Base; interior of Chesterfield Inlet chapel; Inuit dress (modern and traditional); types of parka; pablum; Inuit tents and shacks; caught white whales; ulu (Inuit type of knife); icebergs.

The following people can be found in the album: Captain Bannerman; Sam Ford, government interpreter; Father van de Velde; Dr. and Mrs. Moody and family; Natuk, Inuit girl raised by Anderson family; Cpl. McLaughlin and family (R.C.M.P.); Bishop Lacroix; Alan Scott, H.B.Co. post manager; Mr. and Mrs. Sigvaldasson; S.J. Bailey; Oolooreak, daughter of Pitsulak; Dr. L. Amyot; Inuit; priests; Dr. H. Lewis; H. Lamberton.

Missing Photographs:
1. 1948-149-S.J.B. "Mr. and Mrs. Sigvaldasson issuing Family Allowances at Cape Smith"
2. 1948-155-S.J.B. "An Eskimo group in a Hudson Bay Company store at Fort Chimo being issued Family Allowance goods"

Also refer to album 37 for images.

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Photographer: Bailey, S. J

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Note on the state of conservation:

The album is quite intact, but the photographs are stapled in the album. There should be interleaving.

Custodial history:

This album was originally part of accession 1974-366, which had been integrated into 1973-357. It has since been separated back into the two individual accessions of 1973-357 and 1974-366.

Reproduction note:

None of the images in this album have been copied, although copies of the same images have been made from the prints in album 37.

Source:

Government

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1974-366 NPC
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Volume [R216] 14977

[Consultation 90 Open]

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