Robert Flaherty Collection [graphic material]

Photogravures from a series of 18 copperplate photogravures published by Revillon Frères in New York in ca. 1922-1923, including Tooktoo (the Deer), Chief of Sikoslingmuit Inuit, Southern Baffin Land; The Hunter, Inuk in the rough ice-fields at sea; Summer (August), Inuit Kayak in Northeastern Hudson Bay; Nyla and Child, Eteeveemuit Inuk of Cape Dufferin Northwestern Ungava; Allegoo (Shining Water), Sikoslingmuit Woman Southern Baffin Land.., Works by Robert Flaherty., The National Archives already owns six prints from the set of eighteen. See acc. no. 1989-477..

Graphic (art): paper

Acquired by the dealer from an Ottawa man, who claimed he had inherited them from his mother.

Copies of some of these works appeared in Camera Studies of the Far North. Twelve Engravings of Inuits and Natives of the Sub-Arctic (New York: G. P. Putman & Sons, 1922)

Language of accompanying material: english.