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Aua’s wife, Orulo, was almost as garrulous as Tagurnaaq had been. She described her life in detail for her visitor. She had been born far to the north at the mouth of Admiralty Inlet, but her family had moved to the Iglulik area when she was but a child.
She had travelled extensively in that area...
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By early February, when the temperatures in the eastern Arctic are at their lowest, the sun has returned to the southern horizon of Foxe Basin.
Near the end of that month, in 1922, Knud Rasmussen and his Polar Inuit companions were hunting near Cape Elizabeth, north of Lyon Inlet,...
KENN HARPER
On the return sled journey from Repulse Bay to Danish Island, Rasmussen and Nasaitsordluarssuk made a fortuitous short-cut inland from Havilland Bay to Gore Bay.
At a lake on their route, they met an old woman jigging for trout. She was Tagurnaaq, the first of all the Inuit about...
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On the day following his first meeting with the Canadian Inuit, Knud Rasmussen and his party continued on to Repulse Bay where they were treated to the hospitality of Captain George Cleveland, ex-whaler in charge of the Hudson’s Bay Co. trading post.
Here Rasmussen also met one of...
KENN HARPER
On the fourth of December, more than two months after establishing their camp on Danish Island, Rasmussen, Freuchen and Nasaitsordluarssuk encountered Canadian Inuit for the first time.
The party they met was a group of Netsilik Inuit returning to its camp on Lyon Inlet from a ...
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