Carnegie Museum of Natural History Archives, CMNH 2005 – 3
Photograph and Film Collection of George W. Wyckoff, Jr.
Primarily photographic materials associated with the 1972 Carnegie Museum of Natural
History Expedition to the Baffin Islands. George W. Wyckoff, Jr., a Term Trustee of
Carnegie Museum, accompanied J. Kenneth Doutt, Curator of Mammals, on this
expedition, 5 April to 25 April 1972. Both men took still photographs and Wyckoff,
moving pictures, to record the Eskimo hunting economy during the early spring season in
preparation for a new Museum exhibition. Collection includes final versions of two
major films, “Peungitoo of Baffin Island: a Vanishing Way of Life” and Adolph Murie,
Naturalist: Recollections of a lifetime in Mt. McKinley National Park.”
The collection is housed in one document box + 155 separately housed films, including
many versions and production fragments of two major films filmed by George W.
Wyckoff, Jr.