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Map of Belcher Islands
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Maps |
|---|---|
| Spatial Coverage | Canada Belcher Islands Nunavut |
| Temporal Coverage | 1909 |
| Abstract | This map is the central object in the story of how geographical knowledge was passed from an Inuk man named Wetalltok to a non-native explorer. In an article in the Geographical Review in 1918, Robert J. Flaherty (1884--1951) recounted the story of how, while he was searching for iron ore deposits on the east coast of Hudson Bay, Canada, Wetallok explained the intricacies of the bay's island system and shared with him this remarkably accurate Eskimo map, which Flaherty reproduced in the article. Flaherty later became a director and producer whose first film, Nanook of the North (1922), was one of the best known documentaries of the silent-era. Flaherty also told the story of his encounter with Wetallok in his 1924 book, My Eskimo Friends: "Nanook of the North." Recent historians of cartography, notably G. Malcolm Lewis in Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use, and Lewis and David Woodward in History of Cartography, also have used the map as an example of indigenous cartography. The map is drawn with pencil on the back of a missionary lithograph. Notations are in English and Inuktitut syllabics. Flaherty's annotations include "Little Whale River" [with arrow], "Whale River" [with arrow], and "3 days = dogs = app. 70 miles." |
| Part of Series | American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection University of Wisconsin-milwaukee Libraries World Digital Library - Partner Items World Digital Library Catalog |
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| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Subject Keyword | Canada Belcher Islands Indians of North America Nunavut Indigenous Peoples Eskimo Cartography Maps |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Canada--Nunavut--Belcher Islands |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | 1909 |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Eskimo cartography |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Indians of North America |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Indigenous peoples |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Inuit |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Map |
