[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-more-sixties-fashion-and-an-arctic-visit":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sears2-2b19f4778e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI had fun with \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/209611.html\">yesterday's drawing\u003C/a> and followed it up with this one. (Here's the colour art, line art and original catalogue photo.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sears2b-c7d3888167.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sears2c-8951866e21.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe rain had me climbing the walls yesterday, so when it let up, I went out for a breath of fresh air and stopped by the \u003Cb>National Maritime Museum\u003C/b> to see their latest exhibition, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/on-display/north-west-passage/\">The North-West Passage: an Arctic Obsession\u003C/a>. They had some great arctic gear on display, and if I thought pease pudding (from \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/210260.html\">yesterday\u003C/a> looked a bit stodgy, you should've seen the hardtack and pemmican these guys had to gnaw on. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/arctic1-56280cacc1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI stopped to look at this little phrasebook, \u003Ci>\u003Cb>Esquimaux & English Vocabulary for the use of the Arctic Expedition\u003C/i>\u003C/b> by John Washington, 1850. It's hard to make out in my photo, but here's the list of phrases Mr Washington thought most useful for  communicating with the local Innuit:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>We are in search of English ships (= umiak-soarnik maggo-inik kenner-pogut)*\\r\nWhich have been five years in the ice\\r\nHave you heard anything of such ships?\\r\nMake it known among all the Eskimós or Innuít \\r\nThat the Queen of England will give a large reward\\r\nTo any of the Innuít who will bring news of them\\r\nShould you meet any white men\\r\nTreat them kindly, and you shall be rewarded.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n*\u003Ci>I can totally imagine how badly this would have been pronounced, in a toffee British accent.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nIn the next room, they had a video of interviews with modern-day Innuit who are rightly annoyed that the sea is lapping at their front doorsteps. Here's a handy-dandy surgeon's medicine chest from about 1845 that got chucked off a ship when she got trapped in the ice and the crew had to lighten their load.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/arctic2-2d8a1c0b89.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnother fun thing was spotting Philip Pullman's Svalbard references for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-pullman.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=50\">\u003Ci>His Dark Materials\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, including rear-admiral and explorer \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Parry\">William Parry\u003C/a> and Yorkshire whaler and mapper \u003Cb>Will Scoresby\u003C/b>... Pullman didn't have to invent many names for those books.","2009-06-11T08:37:00.000Z","more-sixties-fashion-and-an-arctic-visit",[],"more sixties fashion, and an arctic visit",1776628732754]