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39 numbered woodcut illustrations on 24 leaves depict costume, traditions, weapons and tools and activities of native Inuit people of Greenland.
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Social life and customs, Inuit, Pictorial worksPlaces
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Kaladlit assilialiait, or, Woodcuts, drawn and engraved by Greenlanders
1860, Printed in the Inspectors printing office, by L. Møller and R. Berthelsen
in English
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Edition Notes
Includes t.p. picture of ship with the inscription: "The 'Reine Hortense' in Godthaabs-Fjord in 1856, drawn and engraved by Aron."
"They were all engraved, and, with the exception of nos. 1 to 8, designed by five or six natives ... The greater part of these engravings are the work of an Eskimo named Aron."--Cf. Sabin.
Prints nos. 1-2 and vignette on t.p. cut by Rasmus Berthelsen. Cf. Oldendow.
LC copy rebound and includes additional handcolored copies of plates 1 and 2 bound in.
Sabin 22860
Oldendow, Knud. Printing in Greenland, 1959, p. 26
Title page and preliminary text in English, illustration captions in Kalaallisut.
LC copy provenance: Smithsonian Institution.
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