diary of Abraham Ulrikab
Subtitle: text and context
By: translated by Hartmut Lutz and students from the University of Greifswald, Germany ; [Alootook Ipellie, foreword and cover art ; Hans-Ludwig Blohm, photos].
Contributors: Lutz, Hartmut.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Ulrikab, Abraham, -- 1845?-1881 -- Diaries; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Sources; Inuit -- Germany -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Genres: Diaries.; Sources.
Description: "In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador, to accompany him to Europe to be "exhibited" in zoos and Volkerschauen (ethnographic shows). Abraham, Maria, Noggasak, Paingo, Sara, Terrianiak, Tobias, and Ulrike agreed, partly for the money and partly out of curiosity to see the wonders of Europe, which they had heard about from the Moravian missionaries. By January 1881, all eight had died in Europe of smallpox." "The story is told from several different perspectives - sometimes sympathetic, sometimes voyeuristic, sometimes crass - Moravian letters and reports, a scholarly article, newspaper pieces, and even advertising. Portraits of the Inuit visitors and photos of the now abandoned Moravian mission in Hebron are also included. The core of the book is Abraham Ulrikab's own diary of the trip, translated for the first time into English. It is the earliest known Inuit autobiography ever written."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99).