INUIT ART WEBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY OF TERMS Inuktitut/ English
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- ajuktaut
- raquet made of coiled sinew whip used to play game with leather ball. Teams (those born in winter, those born in summer)
- akulisiaq
- In a 1973 interview Pitseolak talked about how important it was for a man to wear the waterproof jacket akulisiaq made of the gut of the bearded seal. With it a man can be tightly laced into his kayak. Even the hood and sleeves are laced in. Without it he could die.
- kasigak
- special seal (dark skin) favoured by Kaka Ashoona
- katanguaq
- symbol used by Pangnirtung Eskimo Co-operative. It looks like an inukshuk
- illupik
- jumping
- isha
- the season when geese lose their feathers they are easy to catch. Brooms were made from goose feathers.
- kilu
- sleeping platform
- ilukatigit
- both sides of the tent
- udjuk
- square-flippered seal; skin used for making skin tent;
- kaamuk
- part tent, lined with wood with blueberry bushes, or bushes in between layers.
- Quennuajuaq
- raven (See 1982 print Lonsdale from Pangnirtung)
- saumik
- left-handed
- tugalik
- (Narwhal)
seal and walrus were hunted in spring and fall.
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