The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Calichough ( - 1577)

An inuit man, captured along with his kayak by Martin Frobisher and his men and transported along with an inuit woman and her child (known as Egnock and Nutioc repectively) to Bristol, England. Here he performed demonstrations of his navigation of the kayak and his skill in spearing fowl. Relevant locations: Death place at Bristol, Bristol
 Relationships: Calichough was a unspecified Martin Frobisher (c. 1535 or 1539-15 Nov 1594)
Calichough was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Ginoct (-1577)

 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Frobisher's Eskimos in England.
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