Inuit Culture Quick facts: – Inuit never built igloos as permanent homes but as temporary bases during winter seal-hunting season. For much of the time, they lived partly unde…
“The more love you have for a person, the stronger you do it.”
Image No: ND-1-1140a Title: Inuit seal hunters, with kayaks, among ice floes, Alaska. Date: [ca. 1903-1915] Format of original: glass negative : b&w ; 8" x 10" Photographer/Illustrator: Lomen Brothers, Nome, Alaska Remarks: Seal carcass lying on ice. One hunter using harpoon. Subject(s): Inuit - Hunting / Inuit - Food / Seals (Animals) / Kayaks and kayaking / Inuit - Boats Order this photo from Glenbow: ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx?XC=/sea... Search for 99,999 other historical photos at Glenbow: ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosSearch.aspx
Traditional #Inuit tattoos, by region / via @ITK_CanadaInuit / Washington Ben Jr. on FB (not sure of actual source.)
Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to adapt.
Image No: ND-1-105 Title: Inuit mother (in parka) carrying baby on her back, Nome (?), Alaska. Date: 1903 Format of original: glass negative : b&w ; 8" x 10" Photographer/Illustrator: Lomen Brothers, Nome, Alaska / Dobbs, B.B., Nome, Alaska. Remarks: Studio portrait. Subject(s): Inuit - Children / Inuit - Clothing / Inuit - Women Order this photo from Glenbow: ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx?XC=/sea... Search for 99,999 other historical photos at Glenbow: ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosSearch.aspx
July, 1959 Inuit boy at Anaktuvuk Pass, which belongs to the last of Alaska's nomads - descendants of prehistoric immigrants from Asia. He plays with a caribou-hide face, a toy counterpart of tribal...
Willow Allen grew up in a small town north of the Arctic Circle. Now, the Inuit model is taking over the global fashion scene.
Between 1903 and 1909, a police officer and his wife took more than 1,000 photos of Inuit and their way of life in Fullerton Harbour, Nunavut, and Churchill, Man.
Shina Novalinga is a Canadian student and Inuit activist. Since April 2020, at only 22 years old, she proudly claims her cultural heritage and now has 4 mi...
Here’s a strange tale from the frozen North, courtesy of the Inuit peoples. Qalupalik looks horrible, scares children, and waits patiently in the shadows to catch them. Cryptozoology lovers will be…
Acclaimed Inuit artist Germaine Arnaktauyok talks about her life, including her own experience in residential schools, and a new book on her art and times.
THESE incredible images of snowy Alaska, Greenland and Canada give a rare glimpse into the life of Inuit and Eskimo tribes. Taken in the early 1900s, the eye-opening pictures show a mum breastfeedi…
With these images of far-flung communities in north-west Canada, Geraldine Moodie became the one of the country’s first professional female photographers
Inuit women wearing traditional Greenlandic national costume or Kalaallisuut in Ilulissat on Greenland. The costume consists of seal skin boots bead necklaces and seal skin trousers .
Hunting, fishing, and sharing the catch are all part of the program.
Willow Allen grew up in a small town north of the Arctic Circle. Now, the Inuit model is taking over the global fashion scene.
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The Inuit people live in the far northern parts Alaska, Siberia, Canada, and Greenland. Everything about their lives is influenced by the cold climate in which they live.
