Photograph of a book illustration of an Inuit village, Oopungnewing, near Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island in the mid-19th century.
Date
circa 1865
date QS:P,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(photograph taken March 1, 2008)
Source
Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin in the Years 1860, 1861, and 1862 by Charles Francis Hall (1865), New York: Harper and Brothers.
Author
Drawn by unknown artist based on sketches by C.F. Hall and photographed from the book by User:Finetooth
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