Just learnt that today is Take Your Dog to Work Day! Seems only appropriate to share this photo of Kashe-A-How, Donald MacMillan’s lead sled dog on the 1908-1909 North Pole expedition. The 200 dogs on the expedition were hard workers and essential in getting the team to the Pole.
MacMillan actually liked Kashe-A-How so much, he shipped him home from Greenland to Provincetown as a pet…so, in essence, he took this dog home from work.
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Inuit, Cape Dorset, N.W.T., [Cape Dorset (Kinngait), Nunavut], 1929.
Credit: J.D. Soper / Library and Archives Canada / e002213414
I have been thinking a lot about Inuit photographers and photography lately in connection to my various projects. Thought I would share these two...
Hares of the Arctic
UAF graduate student Michelle Cason holds two specimens from a recent donation from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game,...
Sometimes bad things happen to good films.
In this case three feet (or about five seconds in running time) of perforations and about 1/4th of the...
A very animated dog sled team, just in time the finish of this year’s Iditarod Trail race, courtesy of Admiral Byrd’s Third Antarctic Expedition.
American officers frequently employed reindeer teams in crossing the Dwina River and in going about Archangel. Here are two officers with a...
You have no idea how badly I wish I woulda thought of this first…
The Handy Hypotenuse Hankie
Darn you Professional...
Haiokok of the Copper Inuit wearing a traditional style of winter clothing.
Coronation Gulf, N.W.T., [Nunavut], 1931
Credit: Canada. Indian and...
Klaus Pichler - Skeletons in the Closet: Museum of Natural History, Vienna (2010-ongoing)
Artist’s statement:
“What...
