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Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

 

Cairn on rock above Otto Fiord Camp, Ellesmere Island

Image
Accession no.: Y: 2012/20/49
Object name: Black ink sketch
Title: Cairn on rock above Otto Fiord Camp, Ellesmere Island
Description: This cairn was built in 1992 by a Canadian, Dave Kennedy, in memory of Nurse Kathy Williams, from British Columbia, who had worked as a nurse in the Canadian NWT in the 1920s. She had visited Otto Fiord in the 1980s and taken many of Bezal's clients on walks in th foothills above the Camp, including Dave Kennedy's grandson.
Medium: Black ink sketch
Artist: Woolmore, Ray
Note: On 1000' hill to south-west of Otto Fiord Base Camp. Approx. Lat. 81°13'N, Long. 86°10'W. (Otto Fiord 340C Edition 2 - 1:250,000 Energy, Mines and Resources Canada.)
Dimensions:
  • Picture: Width: 170mm, height: 120mm
  • mount: Dimensions: ?