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Inuk woman
CA EDM MS-156-EB-12 · Item · 1901
Part of Samuel and Archibald Dickson fonds

A portrait of an Inuk woman dressed in traditional clothing and standing outside a teepee.
Same as EB-12 (cover photo) and similar to EB-12-2

Esquimaux in Their Kayaks
CA EDM MS-156-EB-12-3 · Item · 1901
Part of Samuel and Archibald Dickson fonds

A view of two men seated in kayaks on water; each holds a paddle. A printed inscription on the front of the photo reads: "The kayak is made of seal skin, and is about 16 feet long with only sufficient room for one man".

Trading With the Esquimaux
CA EDM MS-156-EB-12-4 · Item · 1901
Part of Samuel and Archibald Dickson fonds

An Inuk family standing with a Caucasian trader in front of their teepee. A printed inscription on the front of the photograph reads: "observe the stone ornaments the man has in his lips, they are inserted from the inside, a shoulder preventing it from coming all the way through".

Esquimaux Man and Family
CA EDM MS-156-EB-12-2b · Item · 1901
Part of Samuel and Archibald Dickson fonds

A family standing outside their teepee; an inscription on the front of the photograph notes that "the man holds in his hand what is called a snow knife, made from a file to cut blocks of snow in making snow huts".
Copy of EB-12