#knud rasmussen

[pseudepigraphon]

redraws of two photos (real) (not clickbait) of rasmussen and freuchen

[pseudocurios]

stamp of knud rasmussen, commemorating the 50th anniversary of thule. greenland, issued 1960.

[evergreensounds]

in my Knud era

[lincolnellsworth]

top ten polar explorers to wear eyeliner

amundsen could really pull it off, he has the perfect gaze for it, that cool glare he has. cherry of course, has the appropriate cuteness for eyeliner. deb on account of the forcefem. i think rasmussen would look very good in it as well!

[willowbilly]

TARNIT

Atqunarnarniqšaitchuuřuq inuuhirmi inuit tarniinnarnik niqautiqa’mata. Hapkuat anŋutikšaqqut niqautikšaqqut, hapkuaraaluit aŋuvaktaqqut tuquhaqpaktaqqut a’nuraaqaqu’luta, tarniqa’mata, uvaptut, tarniŋit tuquvaŋŋi’mata timiŋit tuqugaluaqti’lugit, ta’nai’mallu haturiaqaqtavut akinahuaquŋŋi’lugit uvapti’nik timii’nik aturapta.

—Kunuuti Rasmusan (1879-1933) qiniqtitauqatauhimali’mat Akukitchumiutaq Inuŋmik anaanalik Tainisimik ataataqaqłuni, akiani’ŋaaqtunik hivulliitchuuhimaliqłuni qimukhikkut ukiuqtaqtuup apqutiaguuqtunik.

SOULS

The greatest peril in life lies in the fact that human food consists entirely of souls. All the creatures that we have to kill and eat, all those that we have to strike down and destroy to make clothes for ourselves, have souls, like we have, souls that do not perish with the body, and which must therefore be propitiated lest they should avenge themselves on us for taking away their bodies.

—Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933) was a Danish-Inuit explorer and anthropologist, and the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dogsled.

(—via ᐊᒡᓗ | Aglu | The Breathing Hole by Colleen Murphy with Siobhan Arnatsiaq-Murphy, Natchiliŋmiutut translation by Janet Tamalik McGrath.)

[polar-confessions]

No one talks about Knud Rasmussen enough on this webbed site enough but ☝️ I shall! Ogiuhhhhhhh I need to get him pregnant soooooooooo bad

[ashadowonsnow]

I wonder if Ursula Le Guin read Rasmussen's diary before writing The Left Hand of Darkness... The description of the Ice, the joy and hardship of the journey, even the description of the equipment and the character of the Inuit people he meets... Hard to imagine she didn't read it.

[worldhistoryfacts]

Members of Knud Rasmussen’s expedition use ice floes as boats to traverse a lake in Canada’s Northwest Territory. Rasmussen was a Danish-Inuit explorer and ethnologist who drove a dogsled across the northern reaches of North America.

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