![]() Living in Greenland in the early 1930s, Kent produced some of his best known artworks, as well as, Salamina while residing in the small community of Illorsuit (formerly Igdlorssuit), located in the Disko Bay region of northwest Greenland. This article aims to contribute to the growing discussion of gender and equality in the Arctic by interrogating one such historical account, that of American artist and author, Rockwell Kent, in his book Salamina (1935). ![]() Even as Indigenous artists, filmmakers, and researchers, along with other scholars, have sought to unpack, upend, and destabilize these persistent phantoms, they endure, appearing in new forms and continuing to shape contemporary struggles for access, inclusion, and equality. The historical depictions of Indigenous women propagated by missionaries, explorers, artists, and other such travelers are far from relics of the past but instead continue to echo through contemporary representations of Arctic peoples. A hundred American artists might make international complications. One American artist playing havoc with feminine Eskimo hearts seems perfectly natural and all right. ![]() He has been frank, too, in his account of what happens to a white man, temporarily unattached, who finds himself in a Greenland community where the women have no conception of romantic love but otherwise much like their enfranchised sisters in the States…Perhaps it is well that Igdlorssuit is hard to get to. ![]() He is perhaps fortunate that the people of Igdlorssuit do not read American books, for they would find, if they did, that he has been frank in both his admirations and his dislikes. ![]()
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