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Qalaherriaq
[edit]Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua | |
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| Qalaherriaq | |
 Portrait by unknown artist, early 1850s | |
| Born | c. 1834 |
| Died | June 14, 1856 |
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Qalaherriaq (c. 1834 – June 14, 1856), baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, was an Inughuaq who served as a guide for the HMS Assistance, afterwards becoming the first Greenlandic Inuk to visit the United Kingdom.
Name
[edit]Qalaherriaq was known by various names. Qalaherriaq or Qalaherhuaq are approximations of his name's pronunciation in his native dialect of Inuktun, rendered as Qalasirssuaq in standard Greenlandic. This was rendered Kallihirua in contemporary sources, and frequently abbreviated "Kalli".[1] He was named Erasmus York (after Captain Erasmus Ommanney and Cape York),[2] before his baptism in 1853 as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua. Other spellings of his name include Caloosa, Calahierna, Kalersik, Ka’le’sik, Qalaseq, and Kalesing.[1]
Early life and Ommanney's expedition
[edit]Qalaherriaq was born to Qisunnguaq and Saattoq c. 1834[a], members of an Inughuit band near Wolstenholme Fjord in northwestern Greenland.[3] He had a younger sister, alongside possibly another younger sibling, both of unknown name.
England
[edit]Newfoundland and death
[edit]Qalaherriaq died suddenly at St. John's on June 14, 1856. An autopsy was taken in the following weeks to ascertain a cause of death, concluding that he died of heart failure associated with long-term tuberculosis.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Qalaherriaq was estimated as sixteen when he joined Ommanney's expedition.
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b Høvik 2023, pp. 976–977.
- ^ Harper, Kenn (Jun 17, 2005). "Taissumani: A Day in Arctic History June 14, 1856 – Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua dies in St. John's". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
- ^ Holland, Clive (1985). "KALLIHIRUA". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 8. University of Toronto.
Bibliography
[edit]- Høvik, Ingeborg; Jeremiassen, Axel (Feb 9, 2023). "Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq". Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 25 (7): 975–1003 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
Sources:
Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq
Ingeborg Høvik & Axel Jeremiass, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2169626
‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge
Peter R. Martin, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2023.2235383
The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters
Peter R. Martin, 2022
https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cart-2021-0012
Searching for Franklin where he was ordered to go: Captain Erasmus Ommanney's sledging campaign to Cape Walker and beyond, spring 1851
W. Barr, Polar Record, Vol 52, Issue 4, July 2016, pp. 474-498 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247416000188
KALLIHIRUA
Clive Holland, 1985
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol 8. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kallihirua_8E.html
Polareskimoen i Canterbury: supplerende oplysninger vedr. Kallihirua
Aage Bugge, Gronland, 1966, 1, pg. 17-22
Primary Sources:
Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian: A Memoir Thomas Boyles Murray, 1857
Adam Beck (interpreter)
[edit]Adam Beck (b. December 12, 1822) was an Inuit interpreter who served in John Ross's 1850-1851 search for Franklin's lost expedition.
Sources:
Oqaloalaurgrottet avannamorqarnermik
Eversunik Atilijangsunni / Iversunik ?
Petersen, Robert, 2000: Om grønlandske slægtssagaer. Tidsskriftet Grønland, ss. 299 - 311
‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02757206.2023.2235383
ADAM BECK AND THE FRANKLIN SEARCH Richard J. Cyriax https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00253359.1962.10657679
Life with the Esquimaux - 1864 Charles Francis Hall