My house (first one).................typical houses..............with frozen seals on porch.....
parties...................................dinners......................friends from all over..........
Using this (an ulu)................to prepare this (seal & bear skins).......to making this (kamiks - boots) Senior girls learning & junior kids watching!
Nurse Joanne invited me out to her cabin...here's her ski-doo & truck & the Nursing Station where she works.
Inside her tiny cabin......................her neighbors & their cabin..............Joanne outside her tiny cabin! She's been up in the North for over 20 years and loves it---nursing & teaching violin to kids!
Cooking up a storm with friends!
Elders teaching students (and me!) how to light a "qulliq". A qulliq is an Inuit soapstone lamp/stove that burns seal oil as fuel. For Inuit ancestors, qulliit were the only source of light and heat in an igloo, sod house or tent. The seal fat is placed in the depression part and tiny bits of arctic cotton are placed along the edge. A wooden stick is lit with fire and used to moved the arctic cotton in and out of the melting seal fat. The heat can become quite intense! It was used to make tea, boil meat, melt snow for drinking water, and making bannock. The qulliq was also used for drying mittens and boots, or the moss and rabbit skins that were used as diapers .