O DARKLY BRIGHT 



THE LABRADOR JOURNEYS OF WILLIAM BROOKS CABOT 



1899-1910 



Historic Photo Exhibit 

 On View until April 23 



For More Than Two Decades, beginning in 1898, William 

 Brooks Cabot, a prominent American engineer turned 

 explorer, made annual treks into the remote regions of the 

 Quebec-Labrador peninsula to travel and live with small 

 bands of Eskimo and Naskapi Indian hunters. The exhibit 

 "O Darkly Bright" contains approximately fifty photo- 

 graphs that Cabot took of the people and lifestyles he en- 

 countered. Cabot was one of the first explorers to travel 

 with a camera in Labrador and his photographs provide 

 unique historical documentation of now vanished cultures. 



The exhibition was developed by Stephen Loring, an 

 anthropologist and archaeologist who has done extensive 

 research on Labrador. In 1980 Loring tracked down 

 Cabot's descendants and was given Cabot's original jour- 

 nals and more than 3,000 negatives, glass lantern slides, 

 and photographs. The photographs in the exhibition are 

 drawn from this collection which is now part of the Smithso- 

 nian's National Anthropological archives. "O Darkly 

 Bright " can be seen in the gallery of the Webber Resource 

 Center for Native Cultures of the Americas. 



The Christian A Johnson Memonal Gallery 



Young women at Kanekautsh Lakes, interior Quebec-Labrador. 8 August. 1910. Photo by William Brooks Cabot MiddieburvCoiiege,M.dtjiebury,vermoni 05753 



