Mark Tertiluk sits in the small workshop behind his home in Kangiqsujuaq on a September day. One light and a radio is all he says he needs to spend hours creating soapstone carvings. (Photo by Cedric Gallant)
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Mark Tertiluk has seen the craft evolve from using an axe and round file to machines and polishing
Mark Tertiluk picked up his first rock 66 years ago and carved a seal from it. He tried to give it to a local white man in Quaqtaq, where he lived at the time.
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