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ISBN 10: 0282540717ISBN 13: 9780282540715
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Published by Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1927-52, 1927
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. The present expedition was to become the best-known and most significant of the seven undertaken by Rasmussen between 1912 and 1933. The findings document Inuit culture across Canada as far as Siberia, demonstrating a commonality in traditions and world-view among indigenous peoples across the Arctic. Relatively well-represented institutionally, it is notably scarce in commerce, we trace only four recorded appearances at auction. Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879 1933) was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist, famed for being the first European to cross the north-west passage with a dog sled. On the expedition Rasmussen was accompanied by, the explorer Peter Freuchen, ethnographer Kaj Birket-Smith, archaeologist Therkel Mathiassen, interpreter Jacob Olsen, and a group of Greenlanders whose practical knowledge was vital for the success of the trip. A small cabin called "Blæsebælgen" ("Bellows") became the expedition's permanent base in Hudson Bay and it was from there that Rasmussen set out with the Greenlanders Arnarulunnguaq and Qaavigarsuaq, on a dog sled trek covering 18,000 kilometers. Travelling through "Pelly Bay, Shepherd Bay, and Wellington Strait, he reached a settlement near Cape Adelaide, where he traded ethnographic specimens, including many valuable amulets in exchange for locks of his own hair, which was thought to hold great powers of protection. The summer was spent on King William Land, where the Netsilik tribe gathered he passed Melbourne Island and met members of the Copper Inuit tribe. He also made ethnographic studies among the 'Muskox People', another branch of the Copper Inuit. This concluded Rasmussen's investigation of the Central Inuit" (Nuttall, p. 617). Shortly thereafter, the photographer Leo Hansen joined the group at the Hudson's Bay Company post on the Kent Peninsula. Rasmussen now set out by sledge to the MacKenzie Delta, where he would meet the Western Inuit. "They arrived on Baillie Island and met Inuit who seemed more similar to Greenlandic Inuit than to their Central Inuit neighbors Finally, Rasmussen arrived at Nome where Inuit from all parts of Alaska had gathered, and he was able to study many tribes" (ibid.). Thusly, crossing the entire Northwest Passage from Eastern Canada to Eastern Russia, Rasmussen collected invaluable intangible cultural heritage along the way. Additionally, Rasmussen made his mark on the Arctic landscape: in Greenland, there is a Rasmussen Cape, and in present-day Nunavut, there is the Rasmussen Basin. The other members also made important contributions; Mathiassen could begin archaeological excavations at Najuan, an old settlement in Repulse Bay; Birket-Smith and Olsen collected ethnographical specimens from the coastal Inuit south of Chesterfield Inlet and made a study of the Chipewyan Indians around Churchill. The group also maintained meticulous meteorological and geographical observations, and accumulated an extensive collection of botanical, and zoological specimens. Report on the Fifth Thule Expedition is considered a classic reference for Arctic studies, especially ethnographical, "thanks in part to Rasmussen's ability to understand the variant dialects of Inuit languages. Materials collected included 20,000 items sent to the National Museum in Denmark, and findings on hunting methods, folklore, songs, and many other aspects of Inuit life, are laid out in detail, in an English prose style that is particularly engaging" (Books on Ice). This impressive set is given additional appeal by the attractive ethnographical photography. Rasmussen was inherently restless, possessed an urgent need for adventure, organizing seven Thule expeditions to the region in just a little over 20 years. The First Thule Expedition (1912) aimed to disprove Robert Peary's claim that a channel divided Peary Land from Greenland. Subsequent expeditions being more ethnographical. Rasmussen died on the Seventh Thule Expedition (1933) from pneumonia after an episode of food poisoning attributed to eating kiviaq, auks fermented in sealskin, an Inuit delicacy. Rasmussen describes his insatiable yearning for travelling in his diary: "Jeg er født med en Drift, der ikke under mig Ro i Hvilen; jeg maa leve paa rejsen, stadigt skifte Opholdssted. Giv mig Vinter og Hunde - saa maa I for mig gerne beholde alt andet for jer selv. Og man smider sig paa sin Slæde - ligeglad med hvor det bærer hen. Herre over sin Dag og Herre over sine Hunde!!!" ("I was born with a drive that does not grant me rest; I must live on the journey, constantly change my place of residence. Give me winter and dogs - you can keep everything else. And you throw yourself on your sled not caring where it takes you. Master of your day and master of your dogs!!!"). Provenance: From the Danish Marinens Bibliotek (MAB), with their armorial gilt stamp to spines, typescript note on each front pastedown, and non-invasive ink stamps throughout. The MAB covers Danish naval history, in addition to Arctic and Antarctic marine research and expeditions. Arctic Bibliography 17665; Books on Ice 8.10. Knud Rasmussen, Dagbog fra Den Litterære Grønlandsekspedition, bog 8, Det Kongelige Bibliotek (translation by the cataloguer). Ten volumes bound in 15. Contemporary Danish half sheep, flat spines with black morocco labels, armorial gilt stamp to heads of Marinens Bibliotek (the Marine Library of Denmark), black cloth boards, vellum tips, grey endpapers, speckled edges. With 327 half-tone plates, maps 47 (17 folding and 2 double-page), one folding table, numerous illustrations in the text. Occasional judicious repairs, minor rubbing and occasional marks to cloth. A very good set, extraordinarily well-preserved in its austerely handsome and entirely appropriate binding.