Aron von Kangeq Tupilak

Autor/Urheber:

Aron of Kangeq (1822-1869)

Shortlink:

https://www.dewiki.de/b/1efdee

Quelle:

Wikimedia Commons

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Beschreibung:

Watercolour painting of Aron of Kangeq. The original caption suggests a tragic story of a tupilak and an unsuccessful spell. Apparently the scene depicted seems to be a woman attacked by a walrus while she was taking a bath in a stream.[1]

Lizenz:

Public domain

Credit:

Jens Peder Hart Hansen, Jørgen Meldgaard, Jørgen Nordqvist (Hrsg.): The Greenland Mummies. British Museum Publications, London 1991, ISBN 0-7141-2500-8.

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