"Arnaq" | |
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 Arnaq and her baby Nutaaq in a picture by John White | |
| Born | Unknown North America |
| Died | 1577 Bristol, England |
| Cause of death | measles |
| Known for | being the first Inuit who travelled to England |
| Children | Nutaaq |
| Notes | |
Egnock | |
Arnaq or Egnock (died November 1577) was the name given by the English to an Inuk woman from what is now Baffin Island, Nunavut, who was taken hostage by Sir Martin Frobisher on his second journey to find the Northwest Passage. She, her infant son (named by the English as Nutaaq) and an Inuk man named as Kalicho were among the first Inuit and first indigenous people from North America to visit England and among the best documented of the Tudor period. They were brought back to the English port of Bristol at the end of September 1577 and died in November of the same year.