Description
After his experience in the Arctic, Adams passed his medical exams, and travelled to west Africa in May 1856 aboard the steampship Hecla. He died there of typhus, and was buried at Sierra Leone. The four Gwich'in men in this watercolour are weating summer outfits consisting of a caribou hide upper garment cut with pointed lower edge and fringed across the upper fonrt and back, and a lower garment that combines trousers and footwear.
This collection passed into the possession of Francis Skead, lieutenant on Enterprise, 1850-55. The writing on most of the sheets can be identified as Skead's, on comparison with text in his private journals.
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Image Credit
image © Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Location
Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories, Canada
Country
Canada
Medium
Watercolour
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Category
People & Society
