
Can anyone help identify the Mackenzie Delta people (probably Nunatagmiut, but possibly Kukpugmiut as well) and the white person playing the concertina this image from Fort McPherson in the early twentieth century? It dates from at least 1909, but may be from 1912, two occasions on which Bishop Isaac Stringer (the balding cleric at the tent entrance) came from the Yukon to visit the Delta. My own sense is that it is the former--I thought it was Mr. Johnson, a schoolteacher who accompanied Stringer on the 1909 journey, but I am told by a magnificently informed doctoral student (far more exacting than I) that it is not so. Charles Whittaker was also at McPherson in 19o9, but it is probably not him. The image is from the Old Log Museum in Whitehorse, which identifies the site as Herschel Island, but one can see the embankment and path on the left that identify it as Fort McPherson.
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