Collection search - [Jorgen Klengenberg seated beside Charlie Avakana, who is playing a fiddle. Elva Avakana (later Pigalak), the sister of Charlie, is kneeling beside him. Rymer Point, Nunavut.]

The 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.
Jorgen Klengenberg's father was Christian Klengenberg Jorgensen, a Danish whaler, trapper and trader, and his mother was (Grenameh) Gremnia Qimniq, an Inuk.

Original caption accompanying the photograph: "At Rymer Point, which was visited by the administrative Officer in the Spring of 1950, Jorgan (sic) Klengenberg was the only person able to speak English. He is a white man married to a native woman. She is particularly clever at making his caribou clothes and takes greatest pains over his boots. For these she uses not only caribou legs but wolverine and the skins from the forehead of the wolf. Klengenberg's mukluks are often copied by the other native women as can be seen by those worn by the young man playing the violin. This young man is wearing a parka made from the skins of a sic sic -- a small gopher-like animal. He can play the violin quite well, especially the type of music used for square dances."