Alnayah’s People: Archival Photographs from West Greenland, 1908–1909
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay concerns an image that is often referenced in the study of pibloktoq, the western-defined set of behaviours triggered by extreme stress in the contact zone. “Alnayah having ‘Piblock-to’ (Arctic hysteria)” is listed as Photograph No. NP-26 in the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Centre at Bowdoin College. By placing the image in context, the essay shares Mary Louise Pratt's commitment to the understanding of contact zones as social spaces characterized by stark differences in agency and power. The essay describes but does not reproduce the traumatic content of the image and analyzes it through the concept of “visual sovereignty” as developed in Indigenous studies. Reflecting on the challenges posed to restoring the photograph to the Inughuit descendants of those depicted in it, the essay considers Project Naming, a partnership between Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the Library and Archives of Canada, as a potential model for collaboration between the archive and the community.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.013 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it