A man preparing a piece of soapstone for carving. He is handling a file or rasp on the smallest piece of soapstone in the image. There are three other pieces of soapstone visible. Two saws are visible on the work table. He has a cigarette in his mouth and is wearing pyjamas and a plaid patterned housecoat. The table he is working at is covered in soapstone dust. He is sitting beside a closed window.
  • Reference
    SW-PP2014.2.10
  • Description
    A man preparing a piece of soapstone for carving. He is handling a file or rasp on the smallest piece of soapstone in the image. There are three other pieces of soapstone visible. Two saws are visible on the work table. He has a cigarette in his mouth and is wearing pyjamas and a plaid patterned housecoat. The table he is working at is covered in soapstone dust. He is sitting beside a closed window.
  • Notes

    Community feedback: This is Markosie Eetuk from Coral Harbour, Nunavut.

    From original archive: In February 1962, Don Reynolds, a staff photographer from the Saint Joseph Museums in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA visited The Pas, Manitoba with the then Director, Roy Coy, on a flora specimen gathering trip. Mr. Reynolds took a series of wonderful journalistic quality black and white photos and created a photobook of his visit, a photobook that the Sam Waller Museum now has in its collection. Images cover the Trappers' Festival, Dog Derby and TB patients at the Clearwater Lake Hospital. What is of particular note with regards to these photographs is that all of the Clearwater Lake Hospital patients are identified by name, home location and various other unique bits of information. The images remained with the photographer and the Museum until his death. Following his death the images were deemed to be unrelated to the Saint Joseph Museums mandate. It was at this point that the Sam Waller Museum was contacted and the photographs accepted in the Museum's permanent collection.

  • Location
    Clearwater Lake Indian Hospital
  • Date
    February, 1962
  • Names
    Markosie Eetuk
  • Minor Pictured?
    No
  • Original Archive
    Sam Waller Museum, PP2014.2.10
  • Cross Reference
    SW-PP2014.2.11, SW-PP2014.2.12
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