Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (1820-94)
An Inuit man with Kyac and children
Jun 1854Jul 1854Albumen print | 15.4 x 19.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2510478
Photograph of a full length portrait of a male Inuit standing, facing the viewer and holding a spear in his left hand. A Kyack is lying over rocks at his feet. A young boy is seated in the front of the Kyack and another boy stands at the end of the Kyack. Various accesories are placed on top of the Kyack, including a seal skin bladder that was used as a bouyancy aid, at the front of the kyack.
Creator(s)
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Inuit15.4 x 19.2 cm (image)
[Historic Title] An Esquimaux with Kyack &c [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot search for Sir John Franklin, 1854].
- Presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield in 1854
Subject(s)
- Places
- Polar regions
- Arctic territories
- Arctic regions
- Greenland [Denmark]
- Arctic territories
- Polar regions
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Vessels (marine)
- Boats
- Canoes
- Boats
- Vessels (marine)
- Engineering & Technology
- People
- Boys
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Biological sciences
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Carnivorous mammals
- Seals (mammals)
- Carnivorous mammals
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Biological sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
