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Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

 

Ruins of Inuit winter dwelling (foreground) looking south across Hall Bredning and Ingmikertikajik, Syd Kap, North-East Greenland

Image
Accession no.: Y: 2012/20/87
Object name: Chalk and charcoal sketch
Title: Ruins of Inuit winter dwelling (foreground) looking south across Hall Bredning and Ingmikertikajik, Syd Kap, North-East Greenland
Description: This sketch shows one of a linked group of Thule winter-dwellings, easily accessible from the Arcturus Expedition Base Camp, just above the Kukajik Beach. Multi-shaped icebergs in Nordvest fjord passed by or were temporarily grounded
Medium: Chalk and charcoal sketch
Artist: Woolmore, Ray
Note: Well above the shore, to the east of the Kukajik Beach, now used as a summer camp led by the Scorseby Sund Inuit. Lat. 71°18'N, long. 24°5'W. (Danmark-Gronland 1:250,000 Sheet 71 Ø.2 Stauning Alper.)
Dimensions:
  • Picture: Width: 229mm, height: 152mm
  • mount: Dimensions: ?