Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Kallie, a Woman of Greenland. Native of Oppernivick. Lat. 73 N. an inhabitant of N.E. Bay.
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Accession number:
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02298
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Record number:
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02298-4
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JCB call number:
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D819 R824v / 1-SIZE (copy 1)
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Image title:
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Kallie, a Woman of Greenland. Native of Oppernivick. Lat. 73 N. an inhabitant of N.E. Bay.
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Creator 1:
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H.P. Hoppner
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Creator 1 role:
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delt.
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Creator 2:
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Daniel Havell
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Creator 2 role:
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sculpt.
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Place image published:
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London
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Image publisher:
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I. Murray, Albemarle Street
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Image date:
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1819
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 54
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Technique:
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etching, aquatint, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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18.9 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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13.4 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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26.7 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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18.8 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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A native American (Inuit) woman wearing clothing made of deer skins sits in a chair on a European boat.
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Source creator:
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Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856
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Source Title:
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A voyage of discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage.
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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John Murray, Albemarle-Street
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Source date:
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1819
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notes:
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The expedition invited several of the Inuit aboard its boats while they were trading for a sledge. Ross notes that some of the native people were the offspring of Inuit and Danish parents.Sir John Ross joined the Royal Navy at the age of nine. In 1818 he was appointed commander of an expedition sponsored by the British Admiralty to find a northwest passage. The ships were the Isabella and the Alexander (commanded by William Parry), specially fitted out to withstand Arctic exploration and to make wintering over in the Arctic possible. His mission was to find a passage, note the tides, currents, ice conditions, effects of magnetism, and to collect specimens. Ross experienced mirages in the form of mountains that made him turn back quite early in the exploration. He made two more trips to the Arctic: one in 1829 during which he found the magnetic north pole and spent four years in the Arctic while losing only three men, and one in 1850 when he was 72 to try to find the party of Sir John Franklin.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1880.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Arctic
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Inuit
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