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The materials described here primarily consist of audio recordings of interviews made by George Swinton while on his 1957 trip to the Eastern Arctic. The content primarily consists of George Swinton questioning Hudson’s Bay Company post employees, missionaries, and artists about Inuit carvings and motivations of the makers. Not all the recordings were dated. Ina addition, four items date from 1964 and 1965 and consist of copies of interviews of George Swinton. A recording of George Swinton reading from his manuscript Sculpture of the Eskimo dates from 1972. Interviews by George Swinton of the Cape Dorset artists Kiawak and Pauta Saila date from 1984.

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].

The materials described here consist of periodicals, off prints, government information circulars and other occasional publications from a variety of sources on the topics of Inuit art, the geography of circumpolar regions, and circumpolar culture and traditions. Also described here are materials relating to Canada’s southern First Nations. Items include an assortment of newsletters and other periodic publications as well as press releases, flyers and circulars from both governmental and non-governmental sources. In the case of periodical publications, most date from the 1960s to the early 1980s and complete runs are not present.

Materials described here consist of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photocopies of journal articles, catalogues and exhibition flyers, newsletters, periodicals and other reference material pertaining to Canada’s north and collected by George Swinton in the course of conducting research for his books and for his collecting activities. A large amount of materials consist of clippings from newspapers and magazines which deal with topics covering all aspects of Inuit life and culture. Many items have been acquired from a clipping service and most are attributed. Occasionally items of correspondence, notes, and other records pertaining to George Swinton’s curating and collecting activities may also be found here. Items primarily date from the 1960s and 1970s but some items described here are photocopies of significantly older materials.

The items described here were designated as ‘Personal’ by a previous arranger or possibly by George Swinton himself. Materials primarily consist of correspondence, reports and funding applications. Items pertaining to projects for which records are described elsewhere are also found here.

Materials described here consist of records pertaining to the development of a CSEA constitution as well as records pertaining to national conferences between 1955 and 1957.

Materials described here consist of files pertaining to special projects pertaining to Inuit traditions and culture, including the “Inuit Traditions” oral history project as well as other projects dealing with music, games and ceramics.