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In early 1885, Danish explorer Gustav Holm reached the island of Apusiaajik off the east coast of Greenland. There he met Kunit, one of the 19 residents of
In early 1885, Danish explorer Gustav Holm reached the island of Apusiaajik off the east coast of Greenland. There he met Kunit, one of the 19 residents of Umuvik, a small Inuit community that has not yet had contact with Westerners. Having already done many assignments, Holm had met many Inuit and possibly Kunit. If there weren’t three pieces of wood, there would be one more..
Three pieces, one of the rare examples of tactile cartography, in which Arctic peoples navigated in the dark and in the bitter cold between the 16th and 19th centuries, did not allow them to take off their gloves. These three pieces of wood The coast of Greenland represented with astonishing “accuracy and precision”.
If navigating in bad weather isn’t easy, doing so with a few tools is a really complex challenge. But human creativity It is one of the most powerful forces in nature.
Canadian archaeologist Peter Whitridge has spent years studying how the Inuit used songs, stories and rhymes to code their travel routes in Greenland. It seems that learning a tune that tells us about a local legend or legend also comes with backlash,open a whole memory map.
But perhaps this is not the most interesting “cartographic quirk” of the arctic world. Ammassalik’s wooden maps probably take the cake. Holm found, 3D wood carvings from the east coast of Greenland, Yup; however, it has a level of “sculptural embossed bays and islands” detail that can be used with fingertip reading at night without too much trouble.
Accuracy analyzes confirmed that the wood chips primarily represent the coastline between Sermiligaaq and Kangerdlugsuatsiak, as Kunit explains; and between Sermiligaaql and Kangertivarticagic. Not a representation of the use of paper maps, but the contours are exaggerated to allow for blind interpretation, but simple with some training recognizes the shape of the coast in them.
They are not the only “three-dimensional maps” developed by traditional cultures. For example, nautical charts made of sticks used by sailors from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific are famous. But definitely Holm’s maps yes they are the most mysterious becauseDespite the efforts of archaeologists, very few fragments allow us to study them.
Image | Topographic Atlas Greenland | Gustav Holm, Vilhelm Garde
Source: Xataka
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