Items obtained from the 'Boothian Esquimaux' near the Magnetic Pole

A first box containing items obtained from the 'Boothian Esquimaux' near the magnetic pole. This consists of six spoons and two forks bearing the crest of Sir John Franklin, the head of a fish surrounded with laurel stems, silver belonging to Lieutenants Fairholme and H. De Vesconte, A Macdonald (Assistant Surgeon), and Lieutenant E. Couch, five buttons, a piece of a gold chain, a broken piece of silver gilt ornamental work, a handle of a desert knife (by Milikin, Strand), and a model of a sledge.

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ID:	ALB1402.9
Type:	Photographic print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Cheyne, J. P.
Date made:	1859
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 85 mm x 175 mm
Parts:	'A Series of Stereoscopic Views of the Franklin Relics, brought home in the Fox by Captain McClintock, September 1859' (Photograph album) Items found in the boat with the skeleton, and at Ross Cairn and Northern Cairn. (Photographic print) (ALB1402.1) Fragments of a boat's ensign found at Northern Cairn, near Cape Felix. (Photographic print) (ALB1402.2) Items found 9 miles east of Cape Herschal, and on the east side of Montreal Island. (Photographic print) (ALB1402.3) Reading material found in the boat on King William Island (Photographic print) (ALB1402.4) Items found in the boat on King William Island (Photographic print) (ALB1402.5) Items found in the boat on King William Island (Photographic print) (ALB1402.6) Items found in the boat on King William Island (Photographic print) (ALB1402.7) Items found in the boat on King William Island (Photographic print) (ALB1402.8) Items obtained from the 'Boothian Esquimaux' near the Magnetic Pole (Photographic print) (ALB1402.9) Items obtained from 'Boothian Esqimaux'. (Photographic print) (ALB1402.10) Items found from the Franklin Expedition, location unspecified, and at the Northern Cairn, near Cape Felix (Photographic print) (ALB1402.11) A copy of the record located by McClintock in a cairn at Cape Victory. (Photographic print) (ALB1402.12) A port bow view of Fox (1855) alongside the dockwall at the entrance to East India Dock. (Photographic print) (ALB1402.13) A portrait photograph of Captain Leopold McClintock with a few of the Franklin relics he retrieved (Photographic print) (ALB1402.14) A portrait of Sir John Franklin (Photographic print) (ALB1402.15)

Items obtained from the 'Boothian Esquimaux' near the Magnetic Pole

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