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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [Robert Flaherty photogravures of Inuit]
- Call Number
- Oversize 2007-0027E
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcg158bz255
- Publisher
- [1925?]
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1925
- Format
- Visual material
- Extent
- 6 photomechanical prints : photogravures ; 52 x 34 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- GAX copy: Gift; Revillon Frères, 1925.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- The Huskie (The Wolf Dog of the Eskimos)
- Summer (August), Eskimo Kayak in Northeastern Hudson Bay
- The Hunter, Eskimo in the rough ice-fields at sea
- Nyla and child, Eteeveemuit Eskimo of Cape Dufferin, Northwest Ungava
- Allegoo (Shining Water) Sikoslingmuit Eskimo Woman, Southern Baffin Land
- Tooktoo (The Deer) Chief of Sikoslingmuit Eskimos, Southern Baffin Land.
- Notes
- Portfolio of 6 photogravures by Robert Flaherty, each with detailed letterpress title attached; also includes printed Revillon Frères sheet with explanation of the group of photogravures.
- "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.
- GAX copy: Gift letter from Revillon Frères and acknowledgement letter laid in.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 7
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/29aff32d-75d8-4a4c-8b05-8e3d7d6cec3c/manifest