# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/minik-wallace
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:38:54.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/minik-wallace"
name: "Minik Wallace"
slug: "minik-wallace"
description: "Minik Wallace was an Inughuaq (Inuk) brought as a child in 1897 from Greenland to New York City with his father and others by the explorer Robert Peary. The six Inuit were studied by staff of the American Museum of Natural History, which had custody. The adults and one child died soon of tuberculosis (TB), and one young man was returned to Greenland. After deceiving Minik with a staged burial, the museum put the skeleton of his father on exhibit. Minik was adopted by William Wallace, the museum's building superintendent, and did not return to Greenland until after 1910. He returned to the United States a few years later, where he remained and worked until dying of influenza in the 1918 pandemic."
tagline: "Inuit child (1890–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Minik_in_New_York.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1890"
deathDate: "1918-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.85
  momentum:             2.959117456197274
  historical:           8.605225333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Babamın Vücudunu Geri Verin: Minik Bir Eskimonun Anıları"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Minik Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minik_Wallace"
    title: "Minik Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minik_Wallace"
    title: "Minik Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minik_Wallace"
    title: "Minik Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minik_Wallace"
    title: "Minik Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minik_Wallace"
    title: "Minik Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minik_Wallace"
    title: "Minik Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Миник"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minik_Wallace"
    title: "Minik Wallace"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1357979"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump