Qalaherriaq
First Greenlandic Inuk to visit the United Kingdom · Lived 1834 to 1856 · aged 22
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Something wrong?Qalaherriaq, baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, was an Inughuaq hunter from Cape York, Greenland. He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque HMS Assistance during the search for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition.
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Crayon drawing of Inughuit hunters by Qalaherriaq, 1850s
HMS Assistance stuck in ice, 1853
1851 map of the northwestern Greenland coast attributed to Qalaherriaq in the journal of Clements Markham
Buried Esquimaux by Qalaherriaq, showing two Europeans standing by an Inughuit burial, 1850s
Double portrait of Qalaherriaq, c. 1851About this person
Qalaherriaq, baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, was an Inughuaq hunter from Cape York, Greenland. He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque HMS Assistance during the search for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. He guided the ship to Wolstenholme Fjord to investigate rumors of a massacre of Franklin's crew, but only found the corpses of local Inughuit and crew from an unrelated British vessel. With the help of the crew of the vessel, he produced accurate maps of his homeland. Although Assistance initially planned to return him to his family after the expedition, poor sea conditions made landing at Cape York impossible, and he was taken to England and placed under the care of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
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