Magic Lantern Show, Part 1
Following her trip to Aklavik, Miriam Green Ellis transferred many of the photographs to glass magic lantern slides. These became a major component of her talks about the journey. The colouration of the glass slides was added by hand, delicately painted on with transparant pigments. Where multiple copies of the slide are extant, the hand-painting process has resulted in multiple interpretations of the image.
This arrangement of the magic lantern slides follows Miriam Green Ellis' trip itinerary where possible, starting at the Clearwater River and ending at Salt River. Those images where the location is uncertain follow from Salt River.
Waiting to go up the Clearwater River.
The Fire Rangers' Camp at Fort McMurray.
Tar sands near waterways in northern Alberta.
A First Nations woman at Fort Chipewyan.
Miriam Green Ellis in a field of rye at Fort Smith.
Mrs. Conibear, holding a moose hide 'tea bag'.
The Office of the Mining Recorder at Fort Smith.
Fort Resolution, as seen from a steam wheeler.
The Mother Superior of the Fort Resolution Catholic Mission.
A Mission Father poses with a wagon drawn by dogs.
A man ploughs with a team of dogs at Hay River.
Two Slavie First Nations women, with a baby.