(AMERICAN INDIANS PHOTOGRAPHS) Pair of cartes de visite of

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(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Pair of cartes-de-visite of an Inuit husband and wife. Albumen prints, 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, on publisher's printed mounts with backstamps; uncaptioned, minimal wear. New York: London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, circa 1866

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These photographs depict Kud-lup-pa-mune and Ou-se-gong, who were given the English nicknames Abbott and Jeannie respectively. They were Inuits from Cumberland Sound in what is now Nunavut Province. In 1866, they befriended a Connecticut whaler named Sidney Budington, who brought them home to New London for an extended visit in 1866, where these portraits were taken. Ou-se-gong died on the return trip in 1867; she is buried in nearby Groton, CT. Their story is told in Hall's 1879 "Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition," pages 446-7, which also includes engravings of these portraits.