The images described here date from [ca.1955] to [ca.1980] and include photographs taken by George Swinton during his first trips to the Arctic during the 1950s. The images consist primarily of black and white photographic negatives and prints with a much smaller number of colour images. The subjects are Inuit sculpture and prints or drawings, with a small number of fur and fabric hangings also depicted. There are also some images of artists, workshop interiors and community landscapes. The images are literally a snapshot of Inuit art during the 1960s and 1970s with a large number of those images consisting of items then held in private collections. Information pertaining to the provenance of works of art is often found with the images. The images described here were arranged under the following headings:
Negatives - Beothuk Negatives, Cape Dorset, Arctic Bay, Pond Inlet, Baker Lake, Belcher Islands, Lake Harbour, Coppermine, Eskimo Point (ICI), Igllolik, Ivujiuik, Pangnirtung, Pelly Bay, Port Harrison, Sugluk, Wakeham Bay, Repulse Bay, Rankin Inlet, Canadian Handicrafts Guild, Povungnituk, Great Whale River, Tiktak Exhibition, Alma Houston Collection, Eskimo Museum (Churchill)
Prints – Cape Dorset, Pangnirtung, Payne Bay, Pond Inlet, Port Burwell, Port Harrison, Wakeham Bay, Whale Cove, Canadian Guild of Handicrafts, Chesterfield Inlet, Clyde River, Fort Chimo, Frobisher Bay, George River, Great Whale River, Greenland, Hall Beach, Historical, Igloolik, Repulse Bay, Various Lifestyle, Carving Technique, Dorset Culture, Thule Culture, Rankin Inlet, Tiktak, Repulse Bay, Pelly Bay, Baker Lake, [Private Collections], Community Views, Rankin Inlet Potters, Tiktak Gallery 1.1.1., Artists-Baker Lake, Artists-Cape Dorset, [“Eskimo Sculpture” at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1967].
