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Killing Musk Oxen on the Barren Lands

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Item

Date:

[ca. September 1821].

Reference:

Box number: BK-005

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2964132

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Killing Musk Oxen on the Barren Lands
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

[ca. September 1821].

Place:

Kitikmeot Region in present-day Nunavut:

Place of creation:

Nunavut

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper.
Support 11.100 x 18.300 cm

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Watercolour of a Métis hunter, likely Pierre St. Germain, shooting at musk oxen at close range on the tundra. Other expedition members are visible in the distance.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 45 recto) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available: C-141503

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto, t.: "Killing Musk Oxen - on the Barren Lands - "; (Complete transcription)
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Hunting

Chasse

Nunavut
Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00002.45R
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-005 Item no. assigned by LAC 2.45R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254] C-141503

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-2.45R. Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.
Copyright: Expired

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