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Avataq Cultural Institute

Avataq Cultural Institute

Three separate collections are available through the website: an archeology collection, an art and artifact collection, and archives of drawings, historical photos, and oral histories. The institute also houses a library that holds more than 4,000 publications, mostly concerning Nunavik, as well as information about other Arctic regions and indigenous peoples.

Subjects: Nunavik, Inuit, Arts, Artifacts, Archeology

  • Type of access
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Photographic serie: exhibition of Inuit sculptures and engravings (BAnQ)

Photographic serie: exhibition of Inuit sculptures and engravings (BAnQ)

Corpus of photographs taken during an exhibition held in 1964 by Jacques Rousseau, geographer and northerner, and devoted to Inuit art. These iconographic documents showcase remarkable stone carvings and carvings on walrus ivory from New Quebec (or Nunavik, as it is now called).

Subjects: Indigenous art, Artifacts

  • Type of access
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
The Danish Arctic Institute digital collections

The Danish Arctic Institute digital collections

Four distinct digitized collections available in open access grouped together on the same research platform. There are around 175,000 photographs (fotografier), around fifty old maps (kort), more than 2,000 artefacts (kunst og genstande) as well as 445 audio recordings (lyd). The site is partially translated into English.

Subjects: Photographs, Maps, History, Greenland, Artifacts

  • Type of access
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences