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…
Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to adapt.
Traditional #Inuit tattoos, by region / via @ITK_CanadaInuit / Washington Ben Jr. on FB (not sure of actual source.)
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...
With these images of far-flung communities in north-west Canada, Geraldine Moodie became the one of the country’s first professional female photographers
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
These are the amazing images showing life in the frozen Canadian wilderness by the country's first professional female photographer. Geraldine Moodie,
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.
“The more love you have for a person, the stronger you do it.”
What does it feel like to see the northern lights dance above you in the remote subarctic? Many have described the experience as a humbling one; an awe-inspiring event that leaves one feeling so, so small in the grand scheme of our magnificent universe.
Inuit — Inuktitut for “the people” — are an Aboriginal people, the majority of whom inhabit the northern regions of Canada. An Inuit person is known as an Inuk. The Inuit homeland is known as Inuit Nunangat, which refers to the land, water and ice contained in the Arctic region.
The Inuit people are an indigenous people native to the Arctic regions of North America and parts of Greenland and Russia. Inuit...
Although many artists of the Romantic movement sought evidence of ideal existence in the Orient and the Near East, Cogniet instead chose to depict an Eskimo with her distinctive tattoos. Indeed, this
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…
For decades, Inuit had to wear numbered identification tags around their necks, mainly because white administrators couldn't pronounce their names.
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 .
The Inuit are fascinating people, particularly for their resilience and adaptability to the harsh, cold winters of the North American Arctic. For
