Someone made a small wooden figure around 1350. People found it in 1977 on Baffin Island in northern Canada. It was in an old house. The builders were ancestors of the Inuit: people from long ago in their family history.
The figure is only 2.1 inches tall. It wears European clothes and a cross on its chest. It probably shows a Norse person, from a group that lived in Greenland. It is the earliest known image of a European made by native people in the Americas.
The Canadian Museum of History now shows the figure. It may mark a meeting between Inuit and Norse people. They made it long before regular contact with Europeans began in the late 1400s.
