Kaladlit assilialiait, or, Woodcuts, drawn and engraved by Greenlanders
Contributors: Âlut Kangermio, 1822-1869 engraver
Publisher: Printed in the Inspectors printing office, by L. Møller and R. Berthelsen
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Godthaab, in South-Greenland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Social life and customs; Inuit; Pictorial works
Other titles: Kaladlit assilialiait; Woodcuts, drawn and engraved by Greenlanders
Description: 39 numbered woodcut illustrations on 24 leaves depict costume, traditions, weapons and tools and activities of native Inuit people of Greenland.
Notes: Includes t.p. picture of ship with the inscription: "The 'Reine Hortense' in Godthaabs-Fjord in 1856, drawn and engraved by Aron."

"They were all engraved, and, with the exception of nos. 1 to 8, designed by five or six natives ... The greater part of these engravings are the work of an Eskimo named Aron."--Cf. Sabin.

Prints nos. 1-2 and vignette on t.p. cut by Rasmus Berthelsen. Cf. Oldendow.

LC copy rebound and includes additional handcolored copies of plates 1 and 2 bound in.

Sabin 22860

Oldendow, Knud.  Printing in Greenland, 1959, p. 26

Title page and preliminary text in English, illustration captions in Kalaallisut.

LC copy provenance: Smithsonian Institution.