Domestic Life
Expedition members noted that native culture in Greenland and Baffin Island were quite distinct from one another. Wordie writes that, "in appearance, in dress and in customs the Baffin Land natives differ very widely from the Greenlanders, though originally of common ancestry. [Their] [n]umbers however are sparse...In Greenland on the other hand the population has steadily grown, and whether it be cause or effect the native there has now become a worker and a fisher, living as it were on a commercial basis. In Baffin Land a change of this nature does not at present appear likely" (Wordie 1935, 312-313).
This picture shows an Inuit man from Canada standing outside his tent.
P.88496.PAT (MAA). Family with summer tent. Clyde Post, Baffin Island, Canada.
Source: T.T. Paterson, Photographer: M. H. W. Ritchie.
