Seal hunting is an essential part of life for the Inuit. The skin, like this one from a recent kill, will be turned into outerwear. Passing on knowledge of hunting and food procurement helps ...

Like the PWC, the Inuit had abundant access to seal skin and oil, but most importantly, skin boats. Mysterious artifacts, ...

To survive the harsh weathers of the Arctic, Inuit use seal skin to make parkas, kamiks and mittens. Patterns, shapes and embellishment of the clothing also serve as a marker of social identity.

Drawings from Kinngait, concentrates not on the walruses and owls so beloved in Southern Canada but on human figures ...

NUUK, Greenland — Sitting on the pelt of a polar bear hunted by her family, Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq says she’s proud to be part of a movement of Greenlanders reclaiming their Inuit traditions ...

the thumb became a walrus, the first finger a seal and ... and from the skin he made a coat. He hitched the remaining dog to the sled and rode off to rejoin his family. The Inuit adapted to ...

"Tunniit," the traditional Inuit tattoos, were etched by poking sod from soapstone lamps onto the skin with a needle or by dragging a sod-covered sinew thread underneath the skin. Women generally ...