Portrait of Inuit, Tookoolito

cabinet photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bishop, Giles
USA, CT, New London
1861-1875
paper; photograph
card 6-1/2 x 4-1/4 in.; photograph 4-5/8 x 3 in.

Cabinet photograph, gelatin print mounted on white card; seated portrait of Inuit woman Tookoolito [1839-1875], wearing western clothes; circa 1875; printed on back "PHOTOGRAPHED BY/ Giles Bishop,/ 22 State Street,/ NEW LONDON,/ Conn." Ebierbing and Tookoolito were brought to New London by Sidney Buddington and explorer Charles Francis Hall on several occasions in the 1860s and 1870s.

2002.99.2