DCHP-3

blond Eskimo

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a member of a tribe of Eskimos, also called Copper Eskimos, reported to have blond individuals among them.

Quotations

1847
[M. Charlevoix assures us repeatedly that many of them are of xanthous complexion, or what the French call "blonds."]
1952
In the east lay the sealing grounds of the "Blond" Eskimos, as yet undiscovered.
1964
[Stefansson] was reported as having discovered a tribe of "blond Eskimos" with all the implications that such a term implied.
<i>c</i>1912
There is no reason for insisting now or ever that the "blond Eskimo(s)" of Victoria Island are descended from the Scandinavian colonists of Greenland, but looking at it historically and geographically, there is no reason why they might not be.