Parka Collection

Bassist Spike Heatley (left) at The Bell, Codicote, Hertfordshire, December 1986

Dog sled team barking , 1920. Creator: Unknown
Dog sled team barking , 1920.

Waterproof Parkas, Nunivak, 1928. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Waterproof Parkas, Nunivak, 1928

Uyowutcha-Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Uyowutcha-Nunivak, c1929. Half-length portrait of Uyowutcha, an Eskimo child, dressed in fur clothing, Nunivak Island(?), Alaska

U?iyaku-Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
U?iyaku-Nunivak, c1929. Head-and-shoulders portrait of Eskimo woman of the Arctic region, wearing a nose ring and labret. Her hooded parka is made of intestinal parchment

Duck-skin parkas, Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Duck-skin parkas, Nunivak, c1929. Eskimo adult and child wearing duck-skin parkas

Jajuk-Selawik, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Jajuk-Selawik, c1929. Eskimo man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing fur lined parka

Duck-Skin Parkas, Nunivak, 1928. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Duck-Skin Parkas, Nunivak, 1928

Portraits of Emil Bessels in fur parka, 1880. Creator: United States National Museum
Portraits of Emil Bessels in fur parka, 1880. Arctic explorer Emil Bessels models a hooded fur coat acquired during a polar expedition

Inuit people from Labrador, northern Canada, c1928. Creator: Unknown
Inuit people from Labrador, northern Canada, c1928. Women and children wearing clothes made of reindeer skins. From " Die Welt in Bildern", (The World in Pictures), cigarette card album

Cover of Roald Amundsen, Explorer by Charles Turley, 1935. Artist: Charles Turley
Cover of Roald Amundsen, Explorer by Charles Turley, 1935. Norwegian explorer. Amundsen (1872-1928) led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving at the Pole in December 1911

Captain Bartlett and his Party, 1910. Born in Newfoundland, Robert Bartlett was a noted ice navigator and Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th century

Captain McClintocks search for missing Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, 6 May 1859 (1901). The discovery of the Ross Cairn relics by Lieutenant Hobson of the yacht Fox

The last sledge from the trek back from the Great Southern Journey, 1909
The last sledge from the trek back from the Great Southern Journey, Antarctica, 1909. A photograph from British explorer ErnestShackletons (1874-1922) expedition of 1908-1909 on board the Nimrod

Mongol Race, Lapps and Esquimaux, 19th century. Artist: A Portier
Mongol Race, Lapps and Esquimaux, 19th century. Swedish Lapps, Norwegian Lapps, Esquimaux from Victoria Lane, Esquimaux from Cape Barrow

The cover of The Illustrated London News, 29th May 1875. Artist: WJ Palmer
The cover of The Illustrated London News, 29th May 1875. Preparing to start on a sledge journey. The British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Sir George Strong Nares

Elisha Kent Kane and his companions in Greenland, c1855 (c1880). Kane served as senior medical officer on the Grinnell Arctic Expedition of 1850-1851

Roald Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen (1872-1928), Norwegian explorer, at the South Pole, 1911. Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving in December 1911

Dispute over who was the first to reach the North Pole, 1909. American naval officer and explorer Robert E Peary (1856-1920)

Robert Edwin Peary, American naval officer and explorer, 1909. Peary (1856-1920) is generally credited with being the leader of the first successful expidition to the North Pole (1909)

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