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- 33Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
- 122015/07/08
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- 11Sculpture - Polar Regions
- 72015/07/09
- 134Campbell, Sandy
- 3Ivanova, Semenova Polina
- 1Bergh, Arne - (Sculptor)
- 1Davidson, D.J.
- 1Gimpel, Charles
- 1Gismondi, M.
- 129Canadian Circumpolar Institute
- 129Canadian Circumpolar Institute/Circumpolar Digital Image Collection
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Harpoon cannon on the grounds of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
Download2014-07-02
This harpoon cannon and accessories were collected at South Georgia during salvage work aboard RMAS Throsk. Between 1989 and 1991 Roy Martin and Lyle Craigie-Halkett, through their company Marine Salvage Services, organised a clean-up of the four major whaling stations on the South Atlantic...
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2015-06-26
Hudson's Bay blankets were used as trade goods during the fur trade. This modern blanket has 31/2 points. Points (black lines on the blanket) indicated the thickness of the blanket. Used by the fur traders, each point denoted a value of 2 beaver pelts. This blanket would have traded for 7...
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2012
For much of the history of Alberta’s tar sands, a series of visual conventions have shaped Canadian imaginaries of the resource, the emergence of the non-conventional oil industry, and the mining of oil. We introduce a series of archival images dating from 1880 until the opening of Great Canadian...
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Inukshuk on the grounds of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England
Download2014-06-08
This inukshuk stands beside the Scott Polar Research Institute side entrance at Madingly Road, Cambridge, UK. It originated in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island), Nunavut in 1964 and it was commissioned by Charles Gimpel, who donated it to the Museum. It comprises approximately...