[London, Published by H. Bailliere, 1842.]
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 210 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed, losing publisher's inscription.
Qalaherriaq (c. 183-56, baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua), an Inughuit hunter from Cape York, Greenland, who worked as an interpreter by the crew of HMS Assistance during the search for Franklin's lost expedition in 1850. Afterwards he was trained as a missionary in England but he died of tuberculosis a year after his return to Canada. From 'Natural History of Man' by Dr James Cowles Pritchard.
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