Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq

• Published in: Interventions
• Main Authors: Høvik, Ingeborg, Jeremiassen, Axel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Cape York; Greenland; Perlernerit; Sitter; Inughuit; inuit; kalaallit; Kalaallit Nunaat
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30303; https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2169626

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...