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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [Robert Flaherty photogravures of Eskimos]
- Call Number
- Oversize 2007-0026E
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc6h441744q
- Publisher
- [1925?]
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1925
- Format
- Visual material
- Extent
- 18 photomechanical prints : photogravures ; 52 x 34 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- EX copy: Gift; In memory of Martin V. Bergen, Jr., Princeton Class of 1892; 1945.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- Allegoo (Shining Water) Sikoslingmuit Eskimo Woman, Southern Baffin Land
- Nascaupie Indian Chief, Northern Labrador
- Cunayou (The Sculpin) Sikoslingmuit Eskimo Girl, Southern Baffin Land
- Tooktoo (The Deer) Chief of Sikoslingmuit Eskimos, Southern Baffin Land
- SAPA, Sikoslingmuit Eskimo of Southern Baffin Land
- A Labrador Cree (Indian), Northern Labrador
- The Harpooner
- Youthful Hunter
- The Hunter, Eskimo in the rough ice-fields at sea
- Summer (August), Eskimo Kayak in Northeastern Hudson Bay
- Nyla and child, Eteeveemuit Eskimo of Cape Dufferin, Northwest Ungava
- The Huskie (The Wolf Dog of the Eskimos)
- Eskimo Omiak in the Spring
- The Barren Lands, Northern Ungava
- The Gramophone
- Abandoned Eskimo Village, Ungava Coast of Hudson Bay
- The Walrus Hunter
- Eskimo Fisherman in his Kayak.
- Notes
- Portfolio of 18 photogravures by Robert Flaherty, each with detailed letterpress title attached.
- Collection is described in a sheet accompanying portfolio of 6 Robert Flaherty photogravures, all of which are included in this group. "The six copper-plate engravings contained herein are reproductions of photographs of the inhabitants of the sub-arctic part of Eastern Canada. These six photographs, chosen from a collection of eighteen, were made during a series of five expeditions covering a period of eleven years. They were taken on behalf of our comany by Robert J. Flaherty, F.R.G.S., around Cape Dufferin and Belcher Islands on the Northeast coast of Hudson Bay, in the Peninsula of Ungava, in the Hudson Strait, and on the coast of Baffin Land."
- Copyright: Revillon Frères, N.Y.
- Probably originally photographed during the filming of Robert J. Flaherty's 1922 film "Nanook of the North," financed by Revillon Frères fur company.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 18
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f6e9776c-6378-4253-bc8d-01d38d2b690b/manifest