Canadian Inuit

Arctic People Galleries


Aakuainuk, dressed in traditional caribou skin clothing, travels by dog sled on a winter hunt. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Inuit hunter, Augustine Taqqaugaq, from Igloolik, skins a caribou he has just shot on Baffin Island. Nunavut, Canada (1987)
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John Ululijarnaat, an inuit hunter, uses a snow knife to finish an igloo he has built. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1993
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Louis Teperdjuk, an Inuit hunter, dressed in traditional fur clothing, walks along the floe edge. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. (1990)
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Inuit hunter, Jaipiti Palluq and his wife Kanguq travelling by dog sled on a seal hunting trip across sea ice near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Joavee Alivakluk, an Inuit hunter from Pangnirtung, dressed for the cold in a fur trimmed parka. 2008
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Inuit hunters eating raw fish (arctic char).They wear caribou skin clothes. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Tatigat, an inuk, pulls aside the snow brick over the igloo door at dusk. Igloolik. Nunavut. Canada. 1993
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Thomasie Nutarariaq, an Inuk from Igloolik sitting inside an Igloo. Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Louis Tepardjuk, paddling a floe edge boat through frost smoke while seal hunting at the ice edge near Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Louis Tepardjuk, an Inuk stands in floe edge boat at the ice edge, & aims his rifle, while hunting. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Inuk, Kavavow Kiguktak, fixes a sealskin line on his harpoon. Grise Fjord, Ellesmere Is. Canada. 1994
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Portrait of an Inuit girl wearing a caribou skin parka. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1987
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Leah, an Inuit woman, carries her baby in an Amaut (hooded parka) on her back. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1987
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The Inuit community of Igloolik, busy on a fine winter's day. Nunavut, Canada. 1995
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Inuit children of the Taqqaugaq family dressed in caribou skin clothing. Baffin Is., Nunavut, Canada. 1987
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Young Inuit girl wrapped up against the cold. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1987
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Louis Tepardjuk, drags a dead seal while out hunting at the floe edge. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Thomasie Nutarariaq, an Inuk from Igloolik frosted up in the cold. Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Inuk and dog sled cross sea ice of Foxe Basin while wind drift snakes across the ice. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1993
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Inuit hunter, Tatigat, in caribou skin clothing, works to get his dog sled over an ice ridge. Igloolik, Canada. 1993
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Inuit children play outside in a blizzard during a school recess. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1995
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Inuit girls with babies in their Amautiks chat in the Cafe area of the store. Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Inuit congregation leaves the Anglican church after Sunday Service in Igloolik. Nunavut. Canada. 1995
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Inukshuk at sunset. These stone figures built by early Inuit hunters were used to drive caribou. Nunavut, Canada. 1999
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A Dash-8 Aircraft on final approach to land at the Inuit community of Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Polar Bear and seal skins drying outside an Inuit home on Qikiqtarjuaq (Broughton Is), Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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A group of igloos being built on Igloolik Island. Nunavut, Canada. 1999
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Tatigat,an inuk, pulls aside the snow brick over the igloo door at dusk. Igloolik. Nunavut. Canada. 1993
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David Qaunaq, using a telescope to search for game while out hunting near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. (1995)
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Kanguq (Eunice), an elderly Inuit woman, sitting in her hut at an outpost camp near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Inuit hunter Jaipiti Palluq and his wife Kanguq (Eunice) untangle the traces of their dogs while out seal hunting near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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A large Inukshuk built at Igloolik in 2000 to commemorate the new millenium. Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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Kaja Natar, an Inuit girl from Igloolik wearing a traditional parka, piles up bricks of snow while. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Two inuit hunters walk to the edge of the fast ice leaving footprints. Baffin Is. Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Aipilik, an Inuit hunter, in fox furs with a Kakivak (Inuit fish spear) & fish. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1993
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Nutarariaq, an Inuit hunter, with his catch of Arctic Char and Lake Trout. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Aipilik, an Inuit hunter, jigging for polar cod though a hole in the ice.Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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Tatigat, an Inuk, inside his home at Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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The Metuq family relaxing at their home in the Inuit community of Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Timania Petaulissie & Haunaq Mikkigak, Inuit women from Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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Inuit hunter, Kavavow Kiguktak, jumps from one ice floe to another. Ellesmere Is., Nunavut, Canada. 1994
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Kiawak Ashoona, an internationally acclaimed Inuit carver from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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Kenojuaq Ashevak, an Internationally acclaimed Inuit artist at home in Cape Dorset. Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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Kananginak Pootoogook, an acclaimed Inuit artist working in the print shop at Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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A stone carving of a polar bear by Inuit artist Jake Kadluk from Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Portrait of Timania Petaulissie, an Inuit woman from Cape Dorset. Baffin Is., Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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Haunaq Mikkigak, an Inuit woman from Cape Dorset holding her step daughter. Baffin Is., Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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Kigutikaarjuk, an Inuit hunter, skins a caribou he has shot on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1999
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An Inuit hunter travelling by snowmobile through tidal ice in Pangnirtung Fiord. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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A polar bear skin stretched on a drying frame outside an Inuit home in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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7th Grade Pupil, Beatrice Irngaut, is helped by her teacher during a computer class using an Inuktitut syllabics program at the school in Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2002
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An Inuit family from George River with their catch of Arctic Char & Trout. Ungava Bay, N. Quebec, Nunavik, Canada.
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Joavee Alivakluk, an Inuit hunter, fishing through a hole in the ice for Arctic Char on a frozen lake near Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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A young Inuit woman carrying her baby in an Amautik. Arctic Bay, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 2005
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Young Inuit girls enjoying a snowmobile ride in Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Corrie, Celine & Corra Joss, young Inuit girls dressed in traditional parkas with fur hoods in the street. Ulukhaktok, (Holman Is.) NWT. Canada. 1991
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Traditional turf house with ice porch still used as hunters shelter. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1993
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A Qaggiq,(large communal feasting igloo) built out of blocks of lake ice near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 1999
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Portait of Noah Piugaatuk, an elderly Inuk from Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 1992
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Niaqutsiak, an Inuk hunter, hangs up fillets of Arctic Char to dry at his summer Camp. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1992
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Uirngut, an Inuit woman, uses her ulu to prepare Arctic Char for drying.Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1992
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Inuit girls eat raw seal liver on a summer hunting trip. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1992
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Inuit from Arctic Bay gather out on the ice for an Easter feast of Arctic Char & seal meat. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 2005
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A group of Inuit out walrus hunting in a freighter canoe near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 1992
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Sealskins pegged out to dry at a summer camp on Jens Munk Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1992
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An Inuk hunter aims his rifle at a seal from the prow of a freighter canoe. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, 1992
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An Inuit family relaxes inside a hunters hut on Baffin Island. Nunavut, Canada. 1992
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Inuit children & adults of the Taqqaugaq family, asleep in their outpost camp home at Iglurjuat. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. (1987)
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A selection of Ulus (Inuit woman's knife). Canada.
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An Inuit hunter using an Iridium satellite phone on the Melville Peninsula. Nunavut, Canada. 1999
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Laimiki Qamaniq, an Inuit hunter from Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1992
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