photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Am,A49.118
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); group portrait of Inuit women and children wearing fur parka jackets, standing outdoors in front of a timber framed building; dog in the foreground.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
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1993
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1901-1913 (Original)
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.70 centimetres
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Width: 17.70 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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This image is a photographic copy print made from a glass transparency and labelled as "[large group of mostly Inuit children in front of building]" in the PicDoc.
Production Place: Arctic region either in Canada or Greenland.
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Related image: Am,A49.149 (exact image) Am,A49.150 and Am,A49.62 and Am,A49.196 (similar image)
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Photographer: It is unclear whether or not Rev Edgar W T Greenshield is the photographer of these images.
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Production date: the dates 1901 through 1913 are given, becaue this is the time that Rev. Greenshield worked as a missionary in the Arctic.
Production place: Greenshield was based on Blacklead Island, Blacklead Island is a Baffin Island of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1993 (March-June)
- Acquisition notes
- Miss H South gave the British Museum permission to make photographic copy prints from a collection of 133 glass transparencies and 80 film negatives originally in possession of Rev Edgar W T Greenshield.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,A49.118
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 118 (Series number)
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Miscellaneous number: MM034268/115 (Old BM number)