Coppermine, N.W.T, circa 1951
(b. Hamburg, Germany 1911; d. Toronto, Canada, 2005)
The Inuit called him "Adderiorli" -the man with a box-on Harrington's more than 3,500 miles on six separate dog-sled journeys from 1948-1953 documenting the Inuit way of life in the Canadian Arctic.
It was on his fourth trip to the Arctic that he traveled to Padlei, a remote settlement about 200 kilometres north-west of Arviat where he encountered the Padleimiut during a time of starvation when the caribou, their primary source of food, had not followed their usual migratory path.
