Photo: Keeping the home fires burning

A Sanikiluaq elder watches on as a young girl tends to her qulliq in this photo taken by Lisi Kavik Mickiyuk. Mickiyuk won second prize and $500 for her photo submission in Qullit Nunavut Status of Women Council’s photo competition held ahead of International Women’s Day (March 8.) An exhibition of the all the photo entries ran at Iqaluit’s Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum last month, featuring the photos of Nunavummiut women and girls at work. (PHOTO BY LISI KAVIK MICKIYUK)