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[Inuit women [top row, second from left is Atunuck] wearing beaded and fur amautiit]

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Date:

[between 1903-1904].

Reference:

R1653-1-X-E, Box number: SC 0415

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Photographs

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3406548

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Albert Peter Low fonds

[Inuit women [top row, second from left is Atunuck] wearing beaded and fur amautiit]
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Date(s):

[between 1903-1904].

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Place:

Cape Fullerton (N.W.T. [now Nunavut]):

Place of creation:

Nunavut

Extent:

1 photograph : b&w ; 36.3 x 48.3 cm.

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no language

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Portait of seven Inuit women wearing amautiit. The photograph was taken on a boat near Chesterfield Inlet in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut. Atunuck named by Project Naming facebook. Kinepetoo was called Susie by the Moodie's
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Depicted: Atunuck

Photographer: Low, A. P. (Albert Peter), 1861-1942
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General note:

[A.P. Low Expedition]
Described by the RECON project.
Title of the photograph in square brackets is based on information provided by Project Naming. This project brings Youth and Elders in Nunavut to work together to identify and record the names of people in photographs held at Library and Archives Canada.
An amauti (also spelled amaut or amautik) is a type of parka, traditionally worn by the Inuit women of the Eastern Arctic, with a large hood for carrying children.
The title of the photograph in square brackets is based on information provided by Project Naming. The goal of this project is to identify and record the names of people, places, activities and events in photographs held at Library and Archives Canada.

Related material:

One of the beaded amautiit (amautis) also appears in image e006581114 (Mikan no. 5034450).
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Inuit - Clothing and dress

HISTORICAL EVENTS - 1903-1904 - A.P. LOW EXPEDITION
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Private

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1943-037 NPC
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Box [LOW, ESTELLE 1943-037] SC 0415

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [LOW, ESTELLE 1943-037] C-000051

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: A.P. Low / Albert Peter Low fonds / Library and Archives Canada / C-000051
Restrictions on use: Nil
Copyright: Expired.

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