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The diary of Abraham Ulrikab : text and context / translated by Hartmut Lutz and students from the University of Greifswald, Germany ; [Alootook Ipellie, foreword and cover art ; Hans-Ludwig Blohm, photos].

Title
The diary of Abraham Ulrikab : text and context / translated by Hartmut Lutz and students from the University of Greifswald, Germany ; [Alootook Ipellie, foreword and cover art ; Hans-Ludwig Blohm, photos].
Author
Ulrikab, Abraham, 1845?-1881
Publication
Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2005.

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  • Lutz, Hartmut
  • Ulrikab, Abraham, 1845?-1881
Description
xxvii, 100 p. : ill., map; 21 cm.
Summary
  • "In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador, to accompany him to Europe to be "exhibited" in zoos and Volkerschauen (ethnographic shows). Abraham, Maria, Noggasak, Paingo, Sara, Terrianiak, Tobias, and Ulrike agreed, partly for the money and partly out of curiosity to see the wonders of Europe, which they had heard about from the Moravian missionaries. By January 1881, all eight had died in Europe of smallpox."
  • "The story is told from several different perspectives - sometimes sympathetic, sometimes voyeuristic, sometimes crass - Moravian letters and reports, a scholarly article, newspaper pieces, and even advertising. Portraits of the Inuit visitors and photos of the now abandoned Moravian mission in Hebron are also included. The core of the book is Abraham Ulrikab's own diary of the trip, translated for the first time into English. It is the earliest known Inuit autobiography ever written."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Ulrikab, Abraham, 1845?-1881 > Diaries
  • 1800-1899
  • Inuit > First contact with Europeans > Labrador > Sources
  • Inuit > Germany > History > 19th century > Sources
Genre/Form
  • Diaries
  • History
  • Sources
  • Diaries.
  • History.
  • Sources.
Note
  • Translated from the German.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99).
Contents
Abraham's diary and letters -- Moravian letters and documents -- Norddeutsche allgemeine zeitung -- Magdeburgische zeitung -- Neue preussische zeitung -- Frankfurter nachrichten -- "Eskimos at the Berlin zoo"
ISBN
0776606026 :
OCLC
  • 61258817
  • SCSB-10315559
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library