Bowdoin group at Negro Island Harbor, Nova Scotia, 1891
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Ernest Young, class of 1892, from Brunswick; John Hastings, class of 1891, from Bangor; and Jonathan Cilley pose with three unidentified young men at Negro Island Harbor, Nova Scotia.
The Julia A. Decker made several stops on her way to Labrador, where expedition members met local people, collected souvenirs, and conducted scientific studies.
The Bowdoin Boys also enjoyed conducting amateur ethnographic studies of the various indigenous people they encountered on their trip.
At Port Hawkesbury, on the Gut of Canso in Nova Scotia, Lee ordered his team to collect anthropometric data (measurements meant to determine the average dimensions and proportions of the human body, at different ages and in different races or classes) on the local Micmac population, including height, arm span, and various cranial measurements.
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