Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Natives of the Coast near Cape Thomson.

Accession number: 
04921
Record number: 
04921-2
JCB call number: 
D831 B414n / 1-SIZE
Image title: 
Natives of the Coast near Cape Thomson.
Place image published: 
London
Image publisher: 
Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley
Image date: 
1830
Image function: 
plate; Pt I, following p. 262
Technique: 
lithograph
Image dimension height: 
11.6 cm.
Image dimension width: 
20 cm.
Page dimension height: 
27 cm.
Page dimension width: 
20.9 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Native American men, woman, and child. Includes facial ornaments, sun shield or sunglasses and animal skin clothing.
Source creator: 
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856
Source Title: 
Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28.
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street.
Source date: 
MDCCCXXXI. [1831]
notes: 
Cape Thomson (or Thompson) is in northwest Alaska.Beechey had served under John Franklin and David Buchan in 1818 on their Arctic exploration, and in 1819 he went with Parry on the Hecla to the Arctic. In 1825, aboard the Blossom, Beechey was to explore the possibility of a northeast passage from the west coast of the Americas in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east.Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Arctic
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Inuit
Subject headings: 
Northwest Passage
Subject headings: 
Thompson, Cape (North Slope Borough, Alaska)
Subject headings: 
Arctic regions