Imagery of the Far North from a book from “My Eskimo Friends: Nanook of the North,” published in 1924 and written by Robert J. Flaherty who made the film “Nanook of the North.”

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Eskimo Omiak in the Spring. Robert J. Flaherty F.R.G.S. (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (I think). Image © Revillon Frères, New York. Published in 1924. Page 61 from Robert J. Flaherty’s book My Eskimo Friends: Nanook of the North. Published by Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York. Collections of the Claremont School of Theology. https://archive.org/details/myeskimofriendsn0000flah/page/n60/mode/1up
Nyla and Child: Eteeveemuit Eskimo of Cape Dufferin. Robert J. Flaherty F.R.G.S. (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (I think). Image © Revillon Frères, New York. Published in 1924. Page 148 from Robert J. Flaherty’s book My Eskimo Friends: Nanook of the North. Published by Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York. Collections of the Claremont School of Theology. https://archive.org/details/myeskimofriendsn0000flah/page/n148/mode/1up
Youthful Hunter. Robert J. Flaherty F.R.G.S. (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (I think). Image © Revillon Frères, New York. Published in 1924. Page 168 from Robert J. Flaherty’s book My Eskimo Friends: Nanook of the North. Published by Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York. Collections of the Claremont School of Theology. https://archive.org/details/myeskimofriendsn0000flah/page/n168/mode/1up
The Barren Lands. Robert J. Flaherty F.R.G.S. (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (I think). Image © Revillon Frères, New York. Published in 1924. Page 189 from Robert J. Flaherty’s book My Eskimo Friends: Nanook of the North. Published by Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York. Collections of the Claremont School of Theology. https://archive.org/details/myeskimofriendsn0000flah/page/n188/mode/1up

I watched the film on PBS as a child with my sister and our parents. We especially enjoyed the scene in the beginning where Nanook exits his qajaq (kayak) followed by his wife and children along with their husky puppy.

Revillon Frères was a French fur and luxury goods company, founded in Paris in 1723. By 1903 they had 20 stores spread across Canada. They financed Robert Flaherty’s 1922 film Nanook of the North which explains why they held the copyright on the images.

Lastly I didn’t know there was a book until I found mention of it in an article from the Public Domain Review about the film. It is at this link which has a link to the film itself in case you would like to see it or part of it.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nanook-of-the-north/?utm_source=newsletter

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