Give me my father's body : the life of Minik the New York Eskimo
Harper, Kenn2000
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Minik, the lone survivor of six Inuit taken from their Greenland home to New York in 1897, lived a short unhappy life, as he was treated merely as living ethnographic specimen. This text tells the story of his life in the city.
Main title:
Give me my father's body : the life of Minik the New York Eskimo / Kenn Harper ; foreword by Kevin Spacey.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Profile, 2000.
Collation:
xvi, 277p., [40]p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Frobisher Bay, NWT: Blacklead, 1986.Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.
ISBN:
9781861972521 (pbk)1861972520 (pbk)
Dewey class:
998.2'0049712
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
42892