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Mene's (Minik's) Grave Multi-cache

Hidden : 9/10/2021
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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According to Wikipedia, Mene (Minik) was an "... Inughuaq brought as a child in 1897 from Greenland to New York City with his father and others by the explorer Robert Peary. The six Inuit were studied by staff of the American Museum of Natural History, which had custody. The adults and one child died soon of tuberculosis (TB), and one young man was returned to Greenland. After deceiving Minik by a staged burial, the museum put the skeleton of his father on exhibit. Adopted by the museum's building superintendent, William Wallace, Minik did not return to Greenland until after 1910. A few years later, he came back to the United States, where he lived and worked until dying of influenza ..." in Pittsburg, New Hampshire where he worked on a logging crew. His friends buried him in the Indian Stream Cemetary in Pittsburg.

It is a tragic story told in Ken Harper's Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo, New York: Washington Square Press, 2001; revised edition Minik: the New York Eskimo: an Arctic explorer, a museum, and the betrayal of the Inuit people (2017)

This cache is a puzzle, because I did not want to leave the cache log in the cemetary. The coordinates of the cache log container itself are N45 02.AAA, W71 26.BBB, where AAA are the result of the birth year on the headstone minus 994 and the BBB are the result of the death year on the headstone minus 1274.

While you are at the cemetary, I suggest you read the sign near the middle of the fence parallel to the road. The bottom section has information on Minik. Also, I suggest you take a walk over to the covered bridge like structure over Indian Stream. The gate at the cemetary end can be opened, and the historical information displayed on the bridge is impressive.

And thanks to Matt Mikesell (15 tango) and Jean White for helping put this cache in.

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