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Inuit woman with European features (c.1915), but no authentic images found in extensive Internet search for “blond Eskimos.”

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Life of a Danish sea cook and the 'blond Eskimos'
September 9, 2018 1 a.m.

Life of a Danish sea cook and the 'blond Eskimos'

Christian Klengenberg Jorgensen died in 1931 in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he retired after a lifetime in the frozen Arctic. They took his ashes back to remote Victoria Island north of Canada and scattered them at Rymer Point, where he’d built a trading post.