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The word mukluk is of Yup'ik origin, from maklak, the bearded seal, while kamik is an Inuit word. Three-layer winter footwear system. Left to right, short inner slipper, inner (fur inwards), outer (fur outwards).
Since the 1990s, efforts by Inuit organizations to revive historical cultural skills and combine them with modern clothing-making techniques have led to a resurgence of traditional Inuit clothing, particularly for special occasions, and the development of contemporary Inuit fashion as its own style within the larger Indigenous American fashion ...
This category collects articles on Inuit culture. The Inuit include the Inupiat of the North Slope and Seward Peninsula in Alaska (part of USA), the Inuit of Canada (in Yukon, North-West Territory, Nunavut, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador), and the Kalaallit of Greenland (part of the Kingdom of Denmark). The Yupik of Russia and Alaska are ...
The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland).The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat (northern Alaska), and Yupik (Siberia and western Alaska), [1] and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska.
The Inuit oil lamps were made mainly of soapstone, but there are also some made of a special kind of pottery. [12] Sizes and shapes of lamps could be different, but most were either elliptical or half-moon shaped. [13] The taqquti or wick trimmers, also known as lamp feeders, were made of wood, willow, soapstone, bone or ivory. [14]
Most Inuit men working on whaling ships across the Arctic adopted cloth garments completely during the summer, generally retaining only their waterproof sealskin kamiit. [47] [32] While Inuit men easily adopted outside clothing, the women's amauti, specifically tailored to its function as a mother's garment, had no European ready-made equivalent.
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Kenojuak's best-known work, making her one of the most famous Inuit artists, remains The Enchanted Owl (1960). This major work by the artist was used on a stamp to commemorate the centenary of the Northwest Territories in the 1970s. Her artistic work is thus recognized as an integral part of Inuit culture, and more broadly of Canadian culture.