Reference: P48/16/79

Title: Nicodemus and Gusdiana (Eskimo) making fire

Description: glass plate negative

Collection: British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31

Summary text: Nicodemus, an Inuit man sits on a wooden sledge. He holds the two ends of a piece of string which is wound round a pole. Gusdiana, an Inuit woman, bends over and holds the top of the pole at knee height to steady it. The bottom of the pole is wedged between her feet. Snow in background.

Date: 1930

Keywords: sledges domestic activity

Location: Greenland

Photographer: Cozens, Henry Iliffe