Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik the New York Eskimo, by Kenn Harper, Steerforth Press, South Royalton, VT, 2000

When Arctic explorer Robert Peary came home in September 1897, he brought with him a thirty-ton meteorite, an ethnological collection, and a group of Polar Eskimos for the American Museum of Natural History, which were immediately put on display. No matter that four of the six Eskimos died: the Muse...

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Published in:Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Main Author: Herr, Melody
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2001
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Arctic
Greenland
Harper
Peary
eskimo*
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spelling ftjbha:oai:ojs.www.archaeologybulletin.org:article/240 2023-05-15T15:01:10+02:00 Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik the New York Eskimo, by Kenn Harper, Steerforth Press, South Royalton, VT, 2000 Herr, Melody 2001-05-29 application/pdf https://www.archaeologybulletin.org/jms/article/view/bha.11104 https://doi.org/10.5334/bha.11104 eng eng Ubiquity Press https://www.archaeologybulletin.org/jms/article/view/bha.11104/273 10.5334/bha.11104 https://www.archaeologybulletin.org/jms/article/view/bha.11104 doi:10.5334/bha.11104 Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms. If a submission is rejected or withdrawn prior to publication, all rights return to the author(s):Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).Submitting to the journal implicitly confirms that all named authors and rights holders have agreed to the above terms of publication. It is the submitting author's responsibility to ensure all authors and relevant institutional bodies have given their agreement at the point of submission.Note: some institutions require authors to seek written approval in relation to the terms of publication. Should this be required, authors can request a separate licence agreement document from the editorial team (e.g. authors who are Crown employees). CC-BY Bulletin of the History of Archaeology; Vol 11, No 1 (2001); 16-17 2047-6930 1062-4740 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2001 ftjbha https://doi.org/10.5334/bha.11104 2022-11-07T10:22:06Z When Arctic explorer Robert Peary came home in September 1897, he brought with him a thirty-ton meteorite, an ethnological collection, and a group of Polar Eskimos for the American Museum of Natural History, which were immediately put on display. No matter that four of the six Eskimos died: the Museum just removed them from temporary exhibits and catalogued in them permanent collections. Of the two surviving, one returned to Greenland the following summer, the other remained in the household of a Museum administrator, William Wallace. This little orphan named Minik became the "New York Eskimo" of the title, and the phrase aptly summarizes his oxymoronic life. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic eskimo* Greenland Bulletin of the History of Archaeology (BHA - La Trobe University) Arctic Greenland Harper ENVELOPE(-57.050,-57.050,-84.050,-84.050) Peary ENVELOPE(-63.867,-63.867,-65.250,-65.250) Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 11 1 16
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description When Arctic explorer Robert Peary came home in September 1897, he brought with him a thirty-ton meteorite, an ethnological collection, and a group of Polar Eskimos for the American Museum of Natural History, which were immediately put on display. No matter that four of the six Eskimos died: the Museum just removed them from temporary exhibits and catalogued in them permanent collections. Of the two surviving, one returned to Greenland the following summer, the other remained in the household of a Museum administrator, William Wallace. This little orphan named Minik became the "New York Eskimo" of the title, and the phrase aptly summarizes his oxymoronic life.
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