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Posted on 10/25/2026 7:41:01 AM PDT by Theoria
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.
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Are they sure it isn’t a fertility goddess ? /s
LOL - Obviously a Norwegian. 😊
Wow!
This lends some credibility to the(Norwegian) “Kensington Runestone” found in the late 1800s in Kensington, near Alexandria Minnesota. It was found under and entwined in the roots of an old apple tree that had died, and fallen over. It also had some ancient runes inscribed on it that were not in use for centuries.
The runestone was given little credibility and was considered a fake as it was found in a Norwegian community that was only several decades old. Critics said that any early visitors would clearly never have known that Norwegians would eventually settle there and understand what the runes were.
“White Scots, Danes and Norwegians should start calling themselves “First Peoples” in Canada.”
You are off by at least 8000 years.
Kennewick Man was already here 9000 years ago and his DNA is closest to the north island of Japan’s indigenous people the Ainu pretty much every First Nations and most North America indigenous peoples like the Navajo or Apache all share the same Y chromosome as Kennewick Man they are the same paternal lineages.
The wood may be older than the carving...........
First topic of the new week, a little early as usual.
I’d say it’s certain, yes. It would be difficult to explain if the carving were older than the wood. 😀
Kennewick Man who looked exactly like Patrick Stewart, according to an eminent forensic artist/sculptor who later was forced to recant?
Ya mean that guy?
And the “Chinese” mummies wearing tartan clothing made from wool traced to far western Europe?
Those guys?
😊
Looks good bit like the. Celtic carved figures called “ the hooded ones” that were used as totems/offerings/kinda creepy “household gods”.
I carved one of mahogany years back.
They’re all famously “faceless”.
Looks good bit like the. Celtic carved figures called “ the hooded ones” that were used as totems/offerings/kinda creepy “household gods”.
I carved one of mahogany years back.
They’re all famously “faceless”.
Edit:
The “hooded ones” in Celtic and Romano-Celtic art refer to the Genii Cucullati (Latin for “hooded spirits”).
What Are the Hooded Ones?
• Identity: They are minor protective and generative deities named after the cucullus, a traditional Gallic and Celtic hooded woolen cloak.
• Depiction: They are typically carved in stone as small, cloaked, faceless, or featureless figures.
• The Triad Pattern: In Roman Britain, they are most famously carved in groups of three (triads), while on continental Europe they also appear as single figures varying from dwarf- to giant-sized.
• Time Period: Most surviving stone carvings and artifacts date from the 1st to 3rd century AD during the Roman-Celtic period.
• Where They Are Found: Artifacts and dedications span across the Romano-Celtic world, with notable concentrations in Britain (such as Hadrian’s Wall sites like Housesteads, Birdoswald, and Burgh-by-Sands) and the Rhineland. An authentic Statuette, Hooded Figure made of dark green sandstone is preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Symbolism and Meaning
• Fertility and Healing: Scholars link them to fertility, agricultural growth, protection of children, health, and healing springs.
• Attributes: Some continental and regional carvings show them holding eggs, moneybags, or open cloaks with phallic symbols representing vitality and abundance.
• Folk Memory: Archaeologists and researchers suggest that these ancient stone figures contributed to later regional folklore, potentially inspiring local legends of guardian land-wights or modern sightings of cloaked “shadow people” and monks in the British countryside
I think it had a rudimentary face which has worn away.
There’s a right eye and a nose bridge.
Cross is there too.
If Scott Wolter lurks here, I wish he’d pipe up.
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