Jemmy Button

Jemmy Button (actually o'run - del'lico, also: Orundellico ) (* 1815, † 1864 in Wulaia, Tierra del Fuego ) was a Native of Tierra del Fuego, the Minster next to York (actually el'leparu ) Fueguia Basket ( eigtl. yok'cushly ) and Boat Memory (actually name unknown) in the course of the expedition Parker King and Robert FitzRoy ( 1826-1830 ) was deported to England.

The second expedition of Robert FitzRoy (1831-1836), which was also Charles Darwin attended, they returned ( with the exception of Boat Memory, who had died in 1830 of smallpox shortly after arriving in England in the Naval Hospital Plymouth) to the Yámana back.

1855 he met Parker Snow, Captain Allen Gardiner of the Patagonian Missionary Society, when he dropped anchor in the Strait of Murray.

On November 6, 1859 eight members of the First Church of England by a group of Fuegians during morning worship in Wulaia were killed or stoned (on Navarino Island ). The surviving ship's cook Alfred Coles testified at the official examination under oath participation Jemmy Button in this raid. It must be remembered that there was the cook on the basis of traumatic events for him in a state of certain insanity there.

Julia Voss sees in Jemmy Button - not just because of the name similarity - the model for Michael Ende's children's book character Jim Knopf.