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An Inuit couple, Billy Kemitsema and Mona Kemitsema, pose with two Anglican priests, Reverend E. Hester and Bishop Lucas. According to Miriam Green Ellis, Billy was Mr. Hester's assistant, and Mona was the niece of Mrs. Stefansson.

An unidentified woman poses with a group of Inuit in Aklavik, Northwest Territories.

An elderly couple of the Loucheux First Nation sit watching the boats come in at Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories. They have come faithfully for years, despite his blindness. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured…

Two Loucheux women, pictured at Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

A group of Loucheux First Nations, pictured at Fort MacPherson, Northwest Territories. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

The graves of Eliza Simon and Edouard Simon, in the graveyard at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. Edouard's marker reads 'enfant de E. Simon et de Josephine Simon decede le sept novembre 1911 a l'age de deux ans'.

The grave of Marie Fischer, identified as the wife of Charles Gaudet, in the Gaudet plot in the Fort Good Hope cemetery, Northwest Territories. She lived from 1841-1914; Miriam Green Ellis' inclusion of her birth name could suggest she knew her prior…

The interior of the chapel of the Roman Catholic mission at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, showing the friezes and extensive decoration by Father Emile Petitot, OMI.

The Northern Trading Co's steamwheeler "Trader", photographed on the Mackenzie River below Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories, under the Midnight Sun at 11:30pm. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis'…

The Midnight Sun sits on the horizon, reflecting on the water at 12:20am on July 5, 1922. Likely taken in the Northwest Territories.