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Inuit - Canada

Aakuainuk, dressed in traditional caribou skin clothing, travels by dog sled on a winter hunt. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

John Ululijarnaat, an inuit hunter, uses a snow knife to finish an igloo he has built. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1993

Joavee Alivakluk, an Inuit hunter from Pangnirtung, dressed for the cold in a fur trimmed parka. 2008

Inuit hunter dressed in furs walks along the floe edge. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Inuit hunter, Jaipiti Palluq and his wife Kanguq travelling by dog sled on a seal hunting trip across sea ice near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Inuk, Kavavow Kiguktak, fixes a sealskin line on his harpoon. Grise Fjord, Ellesmere Is. Canada. 1994

Tatigat, an inuk, pulls aside the snow brick over the igloo door at dusk. Igloolik. Nunavut. Canada. 1993

Thomasie Nutarariaq, an Inuk from Igloolik sitting inside an Igloo. Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Inuk stands in floe edge boat at the ice edge, & aims his rifle, while hunting. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Portrait of an Inuit girl wearing a caribou skin parka. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1987

The Inuit community of Igloolik, busy on a fine winter's day. Nunavut, Canada. 1995

Inuit children of the Taqqaugaq family dressed in caribou skin clothing. Baffin Is., Nunavut, Canada. 1987

Inuit hunters eating raw fish (arctic char).They wear caribou skin clothes. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Young Inuit girl wrapped up against the cold. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1987

Louis Tepardjuk, drags a dead seal while out hunting at the floe edge. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Thomasie Nutarariaq, an Inuk from Igloolik frosted up in the cold. Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Inuk and dog sled cross sea ice of Foxe Basin while wind drift snakes across the ice. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1993

Inuit hunter, Tatigat, in caribou skin clothing, works to get his dog sled over an ice ridge. Igloolik, Canada. 1993

Inuit children play outside in a blizzard during a school recess. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1995

Aipilik, an Inuit hunter, jigging for polar cod though a hole in the ice.Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Inuit hunter, Kavavow Kiguktak, jumps from one ice floe to another. Ellesmere Is., Nunavut, Canada. 1994

Inuit congregation leaves the Anglican church after Sunday Service in Igloolik. Nunavut. Canada. 1995

Inukshuk at sunset. These stone figures built by early Inuit hunters were used to drive caribou. Nunavut, Canada. 1999

Inuk in furs with telescope looks for seals from ice ridge. Igloolik. Nunavut, Canadian Arctic. 1995

A Dash-8 Aircraft on final approach to land at the Inuit community of Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Polar Bear and seal skins drying outside an Inuit home on Qikiqtarjuaq (Broughton Is), Nunavut, Canada. 2002

Inuit girls with babies in their Amautiks chat in the Cafe area of the store. Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Kaja Natar, an Inuit girl from Igloolik wearing a traditional parka, piles up bricks of snow while. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

A group of igloos being built on Igloolik Island. Nunavut, Canada. 1999

Inuit hunter Jaipiti Palluq and his wife Kanguq (Eunice) untangle the traces of their dogs while out seal hunting near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

In her hut at an outpost camp, Kanguq (Eunice) an elderly Inuit woman, tends the flame of a Qulliq (seal oil lamp). Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 2008

A large Inukshuk built at Igloolik in 2000 to commemorate the new millenium. Nunavut, Canada. 2002

Two inuit hunters walk to the edge of the fast ice leaving footprints. Baffin Is. Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Aipilik, an Inuk hunter in fox furs with Kakivak (Inuit fish spear) & fish. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1993

Nutarariaq, an Inuit hunter, with his catch of Arctic Char and Lake Trout. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Tatigat, an Inuk, inside his home at Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 1990

The Metuq family relaxing at their home in the Inuit community of Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Kiawak Ashoona, an internationally acclaimed Inuit carver from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada. 2002

Kenojuaq Ashevak, an Internationally acclaimed Inuit artist at home in Cape Dorset. Nunavut, Canada. 2002

An Inuit tapestry made at the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts and Crafts in Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

A stone carving of a polar bear by Inuit artist Jake Kadluk from Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Haunaq Mikkigak, an Inuit woman from Cape Dorset holding her step daughter. Baffin Is., Nunavut, Canada. 2002

7th Grade Pupil, Beatrice Irngaut, is helped by her teacher during a computer class using an Inuktitut syllabics program at the school in Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 2002

Portrait of Timania Petaulissie, an Inuit woman from Cape Dorset. Baffin Is., Nunavut, Canada. 2002

A polar bear skin stretched on a drying frame outside an Inuit home in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Kigutikaarjuk, an Inuit hunter, skins a caribou he has shot on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1999

An Inuit hunter travelling by snowmobile through tidal ice in Pangnirtung Fiord. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Joavee Alivakluk, an Inuit hunter, fishing through a hole in the ice for Arctic Char on a frozen lake near Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Young Inuit girls enjoying a snowmobile ride in Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Inuit girls in fur hoods together in the street. Ulukhaktok, Holman Island, NWT, Canada. 1991

A Qaggiq,(large communal feasting igloo) built out of blocks of lake ice near Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 1999

Portait of Noah Piugaatuk, an elderly Inuk from Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. 1992

Sealskins pegged out to dry at a summer camp on Jens Munk Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1992

Uirngut, an Inuit woman, uses her ulu to prepare Arctic Char for drying.Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1992

An Inuk hunter aims his rifle at a seal from the prow of a freighter canoe. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, 1992

Inuit boy at the window of a crashed plane on the Melville Peninsula. Nunavut. Canadian Arctic. 1999

An Inuit hunter using an Iridium satellite phone on the Melville Peninsula. Nunavut, Canada. 1999