Merqusâq (ca. 1850-1916)
In 1903 when Knud Rasmussen, a member of Mylius-Erichsen's "Danish Litterary Expedition", visited the Polar Eskimos for the first time, he interviewed a man called Merqusâq, one of the last of a group of Baffin Island Inuit who had migrated north and crossed to Greenland half a centur...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Arctic Institute of North America
1983
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| Online Access: | https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65331 |
| Summary: | In 1903 when Knud Rasmussen, a member of Mylius-Erichsen's "Danish Litterary Expedition", visited the Polar Eskimos for the first time, he interviewed a man called Merqusâq, one of the last of a group of Baffin Island Inuit who had migrated north and crossed to Greenland half a century previously. [This profile describes the travails of Merqusâq and his people as they journeyed from Baffin Island to Greenland.] |
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