This book contains photographs of people and places in the Canadian Far North, taken while Mathers was "on a trip from Edmonton to the mouth of the MacKenzie River". There are a number of images of "Esquimaux" wearing traditional clothing and stone lip ornaments, as well as of Native people carrying out tasks at various forts along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers.
Children exiting tent located beside drying hides; photograph taken in Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children, Drying Caribou Hide.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter, 2001, pp. 48-50
Description
Curatorial notes from an exhibition of the same name mounted at the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, 2001.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 48.
1 file containing: An Introduction to the Geography of the Canadian Arctic. Chapter VI, Pages 75-86, discusses the way of life of the Canadian Inuit including: population and distribution; social organization; hunting and fishing; language, art and religion; and regional groups. -"The Awakening North", an excerpt from the annual report of Seagrams Ltd. including a portfolio of pictures of the north, several of which are of Inuit peoples.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 17-21
Description
Comments on a group of women who knit with qiviut (muskox hair), a fiber which is eight times warmer than sheep's wool.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 17.
A compilation of essays by : Deborah Lee, Liam Haggarty, Brendan Edwards, Tamara Starblanket, Camie Augustus, Kurt Boyer, Anna Flamino, Merle Massie, Yvonne Vizina, Patricia Deiter, Meagan Gough, and Alan Long.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, Fall, 2000, pp. 20-27
Description
Comments on the new experiences, including moving pictures and fireworks, brought to Inuit on the coast of the Foxe Peninsula in the winter of 1921-22.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 20.
Norman Zepp narrates introduction to unique collection of 250 works of art from the Historic, Classic and Contemporary periods. The collection includes archival material of Inuit art and artists with photographs, slides, interviews, correspondence and exhibition catalogues. Collection has been certified as Canadian cultural property recognizing the collection for its outstanding significance and national importance.
Duration:18:22.