Photographic Images of Labrador Moravian Missions in the Náprstek Museum Photographic Collection

Pages	9–49
DOI	10.37520/anpm.2024.006
Keywords	Canada, Labrador, Moravian Brethren, Jiří Jaeger, Vojtěch Suk, Inuit, photography
Type of Article	Materialia
Citation	ŠEJBL, Jan. Photographic Images of Labrador Moravian Missions in the Náprstek Museum Photographic Collection. Annals of the Náprstek Museum. Prague: National Museum, 2024, 45(2), 9–49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/anpm.2024.006. ISSN 0231-844X (print), 2533-5685 (online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/annals-of-the-naprstek-museum/45-2/photographic-images-of-labrador-moravian-missions-in-the-naprstek-museum-photographic-collection

Annals of the Náprstek Museum | 2024/45/2

This study focuses on two sets of photographic material from the environment of the Moravian missions on the Labrador Peninsula. Two Czechs stayed there independently in the first decades of the 20th century. While Jiří Jaeger (1895–1975) lived and worked in Labrador between 1914 and 1919 as Vojtěch Suk (1879–1967), a physician, practised medicine there in 1926 and collected samples for anthropological research. In the ethnographic photographic collection of the Náprstek Museum there are slides from both originators, and in Jiří Jaeger’s collection there is also a set of photographic negatives. During the research, these images were assessed in terms of technical and thematic aspects.

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