Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq
This article analyses the portrait of the young Inughuit hunter Qalaherriaq, who was brought involuntarily to England from his home in Perlernerit (Cape York) in today's Kalaallit Nunaat (also known as Greenland) with Captain Erasmus Ommanney’s expedition vessel in 1851. The portrait’s highly u...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/30303 2023-09-26T15:12:22+02:00 Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq Høvik, Ingeborg Jeremiassen, Axel 2023-02-09 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30303 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2169626 eng eng Taylor & Francis Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies Høvik, Jeremiassen. Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 2023 FRIDAID 2152428 doi:10.1080/1369801X.2023.2169626 1369-801X 1469-929X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30303 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2169626 2023-08-30T23:07:26Z This article analyses the portrait of the young Inughuit hunter Qalaherriaq, who was brought involuntarily to England from his home in Perlernerit (Cape York) in today's Kalaallit Nunaat (also known as Greenland) with Captain Erasmus Ommanney’s expedition vessel in 1851. The portrait’s highly unconventional representation, wherein the sitter is shown both en face and in profile, betrays an interest in nineteenth-century racial science and civilizing ideologies. Despite this problematic colonialist content, the double portrait serves as a record for the existence and experience of Qalaherriaq and the participation of Inuit individuals in European expeditions to the Arctic. As this article argues, the portrait is also a visual testimony to Qalaherriaq’s agency, adaptability, and deliberate performance in a social environment characterized by ethnocentrism and racism. Bringing in the trail of Inughuit and European sources that this portrait connects to, this article traces the nature and terms of Qalaherriaq’s stay in British society. As a decolonizing strategy, we use the method of concurrences to avoid universalizing perspectives on the past. Examining moments of competing truth claims in the European and Arctic sources about or relating to Qalaherriaq, we point to the competing perspectives on the Arctic, exploration, and British imperialism contained in this material. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Greenland Inughuit inuit kalaallit Kalaallit Nunaat University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Cape York ENVELOPE(-87.000,-87.000,73.801,73.801) Greenland Perlernerit ENVELOPE(-66.449,-66.449,75.927,75.927) Sitter ENVELOPE(10.986,10.986,64.529,64.529) Interventions 1 29 |
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This article analyses the portrait of the young Inughuit hunter Qalaherriaq, who was brought involuntarily to England from his home in Perlernerit (Cape York) in today's Kalaallit Nunaat (also known as Greenland) with Captain Erasmus Ommanney’s expedition vessel in 1851. The portrait’s highly unconventional representation, wherein the sitter is shown both en face and in profile, betrays an interest in nineteenth-century racial science and civilizing ideologies. Despite this problematic colonialist content, the double portrait serves as a record for the existence and experience of Qalaherriaq and the participation of Inuit individuals in European expeditions to the Arctic. As this article argues, the portrait is also a visual testimony to Qalaherriaq’s agency, adaptability, and deliberate performance in a social environment characterized by ethnocentrism and racism. Bringing in the trail of Inughuit and European sources that this portrait connects to, this article traces the nature and terms of Qalaherriaq’s stay in British society. As a decolonizing strategy, we use the method of concurrences to avoid universalizing perspectives on the past. Examining moments of competing truth claims in the European and Arctic sources about or relating to Qalaherriaq, we point to the competing perspectives on the Arctic, exploration, and British imperialism contained in this material. |
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Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq |
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Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq |
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Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq |
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Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq |
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Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies Høvik, Jeremiassen. Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 2023 FRIDAID 2152428 doi:10.1080/1369801X.2023.2169626 1369-801X 1469-929X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30303 |
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