Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Inuit dances and singing contests]

Accession number: 
35269
Record number: 
35269-10
JCB call number: 
G746 E29b
Image title: 
[Inuit dances and singing contests]
Place image published: 
[Delft]
Image publisher: 
[Reinier Boitet]
Image date: 
[1746]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 128
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
16.8 cm.
Image dimension width: 
10.9 cm.
Page dimension height: 
21 cm.
Page dimension width: 
15.2 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Native Americans [Inuit] dance in circles. At bottom, a man plays a drum while another man sings.
Source creator: 
Egede, Hans, 1686-1758
Source Title: 
[Gamle Grønlands nye perlustration. Dutch] Beschryving van Oud-Groenland, of eigentlyk van de zoogenaamde Straat Davis ...
Source place of publication: 
Te Delft
Source publisher: 
By Reinier Boitet
Source date: 
1746
notes: 
Text explains that the Inuit have singing duels. In 1721 Hans Egede, with the permission of the united kingdom of Denmark-Norway, founded a trading company and a Lutheran mission near present-day Nuuk (Godthåb). He had hoped to rediscover and reestablish the original Norse colonies on Greenland. He published the first book in an Inuit language in 1742. This translation into Dutch was based on the second and longer Danish publication of this work, which appeared in 1741. Cf. Hans Egede, Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration, Copenhagen, 1741 (#01609-10) for the original version of this image.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Arctic
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Folk songs, Inuit
Subject headings: 
Inuit--Greenland
Subject headings: 
Inuit--Social life and customs