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[Alma Houston (right) and a woman (left) [Qaunaq Mikkigak} holding a bird sculpture, Kinngait, Nunavut]

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Item

Date:

[between 1956-1960]

Reference:

R12438-3500-2-E, Volume number: 9

Type of material:

Photographs

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5080734

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Rosemary Gilliat Eaton fonds

Arctic travel series

[Alma Houston (right) and a woman (left) [Qaunaq Mikkigak} holding a bird sculpture, Kinngait, Nunavut]
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

[between 1956-1960]

Place:

Cape Dorset (Kinngait), Nunavut:

Place of creation:

Nunavut

Extent:

1 photograph : b&w negative.

Language of material:

English

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Photograph depicting a woman (left) [Qaunaq Mikkigak} showing a bird sculpture to Alma Houston (right). The woman holding the sculpture carved the bird. It is her first carving. She is Inuk. The photograph was taken in Cape Dorset (Kinngait), an Inuit community. Qaunaq is an elder, artist and throat singer. She was named by Lymekie Tunoo.
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Depicted: Houston, Alma

Depicted: Mikkigak, Qaunaq

Photographer: Gilliat Eaton, Rosemary, 1919-2004
Finding aid no.:

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FA-457

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General note:

The location of the photograph 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.
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.

Source of title:

Title (including location) supplied by the archivist based on a similar inscribed photograph.

Related material:

Photograph is similar to one found in volume 11 (File 11: Cape Dorset).

Series added entry:

Unknown Arctic
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Inuit - Nunavut

Inuits Nunavut
Source:

Private
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R12438]

[Consultation 90 Open]

9 File number 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Rosemary Gilliat Eaton / Rosemary Gilliat Eaton fonds / Library and Archives Canada / e010836141 ; Copyright: Copyright has been assigned to Library and Archives Canada by the copyright holder, the Estate of Rosemary Gilliat Eaton ; Restrictions on use: Nil.

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