Orpingalik, a hunter and poet from Pelly Bay. (Photo from Knud Rasmussen. The Netsilik Eskimos: Social Life and Material Culture. Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, Vol. VIII, No. 1-2, facing page 29.)
In all his meetings with Inuit on his journey over the top of North America, Knud Rasmussen busied himself with documenting their beliefs, legends, songs, taboos and magic words. He was particularly interested in true stories from their lives.
Brody Kaloon, 5, poses with a caribou he shot in Baker Lake on Monday. His mother, Channell Denise, said Brody shot the caribou, his first ever, near Bridge Road, about a 10-minute drive outside of town. Brody later shared the meat with community members. “First catches are to give out,” Denise said. (Photo courtesy of Channell Denise)
It was a busy day on Qikiqtarjuaq’s waterfront on Monday as the season’s first sealift arrived the same morning as a passenger cruise ship. The Rosaire A Desgagnés cargo ship, left, arrived in the early morning, bringing shipments for residents and a municipal vehicle, while Aurora Expeditions’ Greg Mortimer carried passengers to visit the hamlet. Both ships had left by the afternoon. The sealift’s next stop is Clyde River. Another sealift is expected to arrive in Qikiqtarjuaq later in the summer. (Photos courtesy of Daisy Nuqingaq)
British Columbia MP Bob Zimmer, right, the federal Conservative party critic for northern affairs and Arctic sovereignty, was in Nunavut recently to meet with territorial, business and community leaders. He is pictured here with Canadian Coast Guard Capt. D. Barron and the coast guard’s assistant commissioner for the Arctic region, Neil O’Rourke, touring the coast guard icebreaker Henry Larsen. (Photo courtesy of MP Bob Zimmer’s office)