Series - Audio Recordings

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Audio Recordings

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  • 1957 - 1984 (Creation)

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31 audio reels.

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The audio recordings described here were acquired by the Winnipeg Art Gallery as part of the larger accession of George Swinton’s records donated between 1977 and 1985. The ownership of copyright is unclear.

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The materials described here primarily consist of audio recordings of interviews made by George Swinton while on his 1957 trip to the Eastern Arctic. The content primarily consists of George Swinton questioning Hudson’s Bay Company post employees, missionaries, and artists about Inuit carvings and motivations of the makers. Not all the recordings were dated. Ina addition, four items date from 1964 and 1965 and consist of copies of interviews of George Swinton. A recording of George Swinton reading from his manuscript Sculpture of the Eskimo dates from 1972. Interviews by George Swinton of the Cape Dorset artists Kiawak and Pauta Saila date from 1984.

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Variable speeds due to uncertain power supplies at the time of recording; poor quality audio on some recordings due to field conditions. The original analog recordings have been reformatted as digital files; minor corrections for uneven speed and poor audio quality were made during reformatting.

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