Robert Flaherty
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers / Series 2: Research and project files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1958-2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-27, Subseries 2.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material in this sub-series is arranged alphabetically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This sub-series documents Carpenter's research related to Robert Flaherty and Flaherty's work on the Inuit ("Eskimo") hunter Comock. Carpenter served as the editor to The Story of Comock the Eskimo, as told to Robert Flaherty (1968), which was later re-published as Comock: The True Story of an Eskimo Hunter (2003). The bulk of the sub-series consists of compiled and reproduced research files on Flaherty, Comock, and Inuit art and archaeology. These files include reference photographs and photocopies from archival repositories; newspaper and magazine clippings; biographies and reviews; and notes. Also included is correspondence related not only to Comock and Flaherty, but to Carpenter's other Arctic and Inuit projects.

Of note in this sub-series is an incomplete mock-up of a book labeled "Comock, Enooesweetok and Flaherty," as well as a galley of the French translation of The Story of Comock the Eskimo, as told to Robert Flaherty ("L'Histoire de Comock L'Esquimau"). Also included is Richard Leacock's recounting of his experience with Robert Flaherty creating 1948's Louisiana Story.

Related material can be found in sub-series 2.2: "Eskimo Mapping."