Two Inuit women with baby

An Inuit women, possibly a nurse, carrying a baby in a sling on her back, and a second woman standing beside her with hands raised to the nurse's shoulder. There is some masking paper on the emulsion side of the negative, and evidence of the background having been masked in the past. It is not known where this group was photographed. The Phoenix visited four settlements along the west coast of Greenland: Holsteinborg, Godhavn, Proven, and Upernarvick between 8 June and 21 July 1854.

Object Details

ID: G4264
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Inglefield, Edward Augustus
Events: Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Date made: 1854
Exhibition: Freeze Frame; Inglefield Expedition
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 162 mm x 212 mm