Ethnology of the Ungava district, Hudson Bay Territory

Lucien Turner arrived at the present-day community of Kuujjuaq on the northern Quebec-Labrador peninsula in 1882.

As with his earlier long-term appointments in Alaska, he primarily conducted meteorological, atmospheric, and tidal observations for the U.S.

Army's Signal Corps. But he also developed a meaningful rapport with the Innu and Inuit, spending his free time studying and recording not only their material cultureincluding clothing, dwellings, weapons, and toolsbut also their lifeways, language, and stories.

His images of these people and their camps are among the earliest examples of photography of the Arctic.

As Stephen Loring Notes in the introduction,