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An Inuit Wedding Group, Holsteinsborg Jun 1854
Albumen print | 16.1 x 20.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2510469
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94)
An Inuit Wedding Group, Holsteinsborg Jun 1854
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Photograph of a three-quarters length group portrait of an Inuit wedding group all of whom stand, facing three-quarters left. From left to right there stands an older woman described as 'mother' with her left hand over the shoulder of her daughter. Alongside her there is a young man ('affiance') wearing western dress and next to him another young female Inuit ('Sister in law'). The females all wear their hair up and tied above their heads.
Provenance
Presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield in 1854
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
16.1 x 20.5 cm (image)
Alternative title(s)
[Historic Title] 'Mother, Daughter, Affiance and Sister-in-Law', Greenland [Album: HMS's Phoenix and Talbot in search of Sir John Franklin, 1854].