Contributed by Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Description
Sitting on the rail during the schooner's visit to West Greenland, these women show off their traditional clothing. They wear beaded collars over cloth jackets with fur at neck and cuffs, and fancy boots reaching over the knee to meet short fur pants decorated with embroidery and inset strips of contrasting fur.
During the summer of 1926, the schooner Bowdoin traveled to Labrador, Baffin Island, and Greenland on an expedition sponsored by the Field Museum of Chicago. The scientists working with Donald MacMillan concentrated on marine life and plant studies.
About This Item
- Title: West Greenland women aboard the 'Bowdoin,' 1926
- Creator: Donald Baxter MacMillan
- Creation Date: 1926
- Subject Date: 1926
- Location: GL
- Media: Photo negative
- Local Code: 3000.33.2952
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Expeditions & surveys
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration
- Bowdoin (Ship)
- Eskimos
- Costumes--Eskimo
- Women
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies CenterBowdoin College, 9500 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011-8495
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