photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Am,A49.205
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); view of a walrus on an ice floe, photographed from a boat in the sea, with an oar blurring the view in the foreground; Baffin Island (?).
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
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1993
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1901-1913 (Original)
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.70 centimetres
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Width: 12.70 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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This image is a photographic contact print made from a film negative and labelled as "[walrus on floe, oar in front.8.5x6cm]" in the PicDoc.
Production Place: Arctic region either in Canada or Greenland.
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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
- Condition
- Scratch marks on original negative.
- 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,A49.205
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 206 (Series number)
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Miscellaneous number: MM034269/5 (Old BM number)