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From a collection of watercolours and assorted sketches by Edward Adams, assistant surgeon on HMS Investigator, part of James Clark Ross's expedition, 1848-49, and on HMS Enterprise under Richard Collinson, 1850-55. After his experience in the Arctic, Adams passed his medical exams, and travelled to west Africa in May 1856 aboard the steampship Hecla. He died there of typhus, and was buried at Sierra Leone. The four Gwich'in men in this watercolour are weating summer outfits consisting of a caribou hide upper garment cut with pointed lower edge and fringed across the upper fonrt and back, and a lower garment that combines trousers and footwear. |