Blond Eskimos

A Inuit man in a parka with a mustache looking to his right.
The man in this 1906 lantern slide by the Lomen brothers was described as a "blond Inuit".[1]

Blonde Eskimos or Blond Eskimos is a term first applied in accounts of sightings of, and encounters with, light-haired Inuit[2] (then known as "Eskimo") peoples of Northern Canada from the early 20th century, particularly around the Coronation Gulf between mainland Canada and Victoria Island. Sightings of light-haired natives of the Arctic have been mentioned in written accounts as far back as the 17th century.[3]

  1. ^ Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (2001). Pálsson, Gísli (ed.). Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. UPNE. p. Plate 12. ISBN 978-1-58465-119-2. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference CBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ F.W. Stokes; THE BLOND ESKIMO, Known at Least a Century, Arctic Painter Finds, The New York Times, June 27, 1913, page 8