Ngā Taonga: Huskies on ice

Dogs in Antarctica – Tales from the Pack is the name of a new exhibition at Canterbury Museum, all about the long history of working dogs in the Antarctic, and it inspired Sarah Johnston from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to delve into the sound archives and see what recordings we have about these heroic canines of the ice.

Cecil Meares and “Osman” 1910-1914 [Antarctica NZ Pictorial Collection]

Emperor Penguin checking out a husky dogline 1971-1972 [Antarctica NZ Pictorial Collection]

Scott’s dog Chris, listening to the gramophone, Antarctica 1911 [Alexander Turnbull Library]

Poster advertising Gaumont Co. film “With Captain Scott to the South Pole” 1912 [Alexander Turnbull Library]

Bob McKerrow guides a reluctant ex-Scott Base husky off the ship in Lyttleton, Feb 1987 [Courtesy Bob McKerrow]

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