Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus

This wooden figurine was discovered in 1977 in an early house built by the ancestors of the Inuit on Baffin Island in northern Canada. The unique carving represents a person wearing European clothing and a cross on their chest. Dated to 1350, the figurine is the earliest Indigenous representation of a European anywhere in the Western Hemisphere and probably depicts a Norseman.

The tiny driftwood carving, which is currently on display at the Canadian Museum of History, measures just 2.1 inches (5.4 centimeters) tall. According to the museum, the featureless face and stumpy arms are common in 14th-century Inuit carvings, but the depiction of a non-Inuit is unique.

The mysterious figure wears a long robe or tunic with a cross on the front ‪—‬ a garment that is similar to those worn in the 11th to 13th centuries by Norse Christians from Greenland. The Norse sagas mention a place called "Helluland," which Leif Eriksson (also spelled Erikson) visited in the early 11th century and is most likely Baffin Island.

Around A.D. 1000, Norse explorers landed in what is now Newfoundland and set up camp at a site archaeologists call l'Anse aux Meadows. Wood buildings and remains from iron production are all that is left of the earliest European settlement in the Americas.

But, the emphasis, the framing, is a put down on Columbus.

We all know that the vikings visited all over the place. That is how they got the name. We all know that they tried to settle some areas. This is not news.
But, nonetheless, the MSM simply MUST make sure in every way possible that you are told that Columbus is relegated to 2nd place, at best.

Where are the Italian/Spanish pitchforks?

“unique carving represents a person wearing European clothing and a cross on their chest.”

Whoa whoa whoa wait....I thought we can’t assume anything by the way people dress?

(AND BTW, I can’t tell about any cross.)

Is the carving 1350 or is just the wood?

Maybe a more modern Intuit found a piece of old driftwood to carve on.

The ancient remains of white people have been found all over the world, but they don’t fit the narrative and so aren’t widely reported (or known). There was a case some years back of a mummified / buried carcass with reddish blond hair found in the Pacific Northwest. But the “Native Americans” made a fuss over the disrespect being shown one of their alleged ancestors, and the remains were turned over to them without further study or comment. Similarly, blond-haired remains were found in China and quietly put in storage without further study.

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