Inuit people made a small wooden figure around 1350. Someone found it in 1977 in an old house on Baffin Island, in northern Canada. The figure is only 5.4 centimetres tall. Today, visitors can see it at the Canadian Museum of History.
The person wears European clothes and a cross on the chest. It probably shows a Norse person, from a group of Europeans living in Greenland. It is the first known image of a European made by the original peoples of the Americas.
The figure may mark a meeting between Inuit and Norse people. They did not have regular contact with Europeans until much later, in the late 1400s. The clothes and cross show what the maker noticed about the visitor.
