Give me my father's body

the life of Minik, the New York Eskimo

Discusses Minik Wallace, a young Eskimo boy brought to New York in 1897 along with his father, whose skeleton was put on display in the Museum of Natural History; Minik's years as a "specimen"; his displacement both in America and in Greenland upon his return there; Arctic exploration; and early anthropology.

Steerforth Press
2000
9781883642532
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