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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.642
People
John L. Dunmore, American (1823 - 1892)
George P. Critcherson, American (Dorchester, MA 1833 - 1902 Somerville, MA)
Author: William Bradford, American (Fairhaven, MA 1823 - 1892 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled ("An Esquimaux Toupek")
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873), plate 121
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1869
Places
Creation Place: North America, Greenland
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158648

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 29.5 x 40.8 cm (11 5/8 x 16 1/16 in.)
mount: 43 x 53.3 cm (16 15/16 x 21 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto of mount, lower left, in ink: An Esquimau[x?] Toupek with his Kayak placed
    on the poles to keep in from being destroyed by the Esquimaux dogs

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Transferred from Widener Library
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.642
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Esquimaux Toupek or Skin Tent. The boat or kayak is placed on poles to keep it from dogs, which destroy everything they can reach. Plate 121 in William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873).

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