Members of the Amaruq Hunters and Trappers Association pose after a successful bowhead whale hunt this summer. The city announced plans to work with the HTA to create a display of the whale’s skull near a trail in the community. (Photo by Bill Williams, Special to Nunatsiaq News)
Project will be done in partnership with HTA to commemorate whale hunt; federal funding will be used
Plans to display a bowhead whale skull are in the works following a vote by Iqaluit city council Tuesday night. Councillors voted unanimously to approve the project, as presented by the city’s recreation department.
Writer and historian Kenn Harper gives a talk on Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition, which Rasmussen led in the Arctic from 1921 to 1924, to a room of more than 50 people at the Nunavut Research Institute in Iqaluit on Wednesday. Harper is set to launch his book, “For Inuit and Explorers,” the fifth book in his “In Those Days” series about Arctic history, at the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday. (Photo by Emma Tranter)
Event part of Nunavut Parks’ weekly ‘Learn To…’ series
Haali Paton, centre, shows visitors to Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park in Iqaluit on Tuesday how to make pitsi. Sherry Nuliayuk, left, and Kethika Kulleperuma take in what Paton is saying as they try to gut their fish. Making pitsi, which is the Inuit method of drying a fish, is a part of Nunavut Parks’ ‘Learn To…’ series. “It’s a great opportunity to teach others [how to make pitsi],” Paton said of the workshop. Similar events are also held at Iqalugaarjuup Nunanga Territorial Park in Rankin Inlet and Kugluk Territorial Park in Kugluktuk. A full schedule of this year’s remaining events is on the Government of Nunavut website. (Photo by David Lochead)