[Spectators watch as a young man is thrown in the air during a blanket toss in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School during the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik.]
[Children dance during an event at the Samuel Hearne Secondary School gymnasium for the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik.]
[Many people dance during a drum dance at an event at the Samuel Hearne Secondary School gymnasium for the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik.]
[Many people dance during an Inuvialuit drum dance at an event at the Samuel Hearne Secondary School gymnasium for the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik.]
[A large group of people dance a tea dance during an event at the Samuel Hearne Secondary School gymnasium for the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik.]
[Men drum and play handgame on an outdoor stage in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik during the 1979 Northern Games. A crowd watches.]
[Men drum and play handgame on an outdoor stage in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik during the 1979 Northern Games. A crowd watches.]
[Men and women dance on an outdoor stage in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik during the 1979 Northern Games. A crowd watches.]
[Men and women dance on an outdoor stage in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik during the 1979 Northern Games. A crowd watches.]
[Men and women dance on an outdoor stage in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik during the 1979 Northern Games. A crowd watches.]
[Children dance on an outdoor stage in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik during the 1979 Northern Games. A crowd watches.]
[Children square dance on an outdoor stage in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik during the 1979 Northern Games. A crowd watches.]
[Women sit together around a piece of plywood for a duck plucking bush skills competition in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School during the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik. Spectators stand behind a fence.]
[Women sit together around a piece of plywood for a duck plucking bush skills competition in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School during the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik. Spectators stand behind a fence.]
[Women sit in a circle during a duck plucking bush skills competition in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School during the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik. Spectators stand behind a fence.]
[Women sit together around a piece of plywood during a duck plucking bush skills competition in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School during the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik. Spectators stand behind a fence.]
[Women sit together around a piece of plywood during a duck plucking bush skills competition in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School during the 1979 Northern Games in Inuvik. Spectators stand behind a fence.]
[A man drums on an Inuvialuit or Inuit-style drum on an outdoor stage in front of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik during the 1979 Northern Games. A crowd watches.]
[Studio portrait of James Jerome.]
This fonds consists of approximately 9000 black and white negatives, four colour negatives, and a small number of black and white and colour print photographs taken by James Jerome in the 1960s and 1970s and 5 cm of reports and correspondence. The majority of the photographs date from the period 1977-1979. Many were taken in the Fort McPherson and Peel River region, and document life on the land, fur trapping, winter and summer camps, fishing camps and fish preparation and drying activities of the Gwich'in. In addition there are many portraits, a selection of self-portraits, family photographs, transportation and recreation photographs. Many of the print photographs are copies of the negatives. Photographs of Inuvik include the 1979 Northern Games, while photographs of Yellowknife include music concerts. The textual material includes a project description of Jerome's proposed 'Portraits and History of the Dene Elders of the NWT' publication as well as handwritten and typewritten notes on the project, and correspondence.
Jerome, James