A floor-to-ceiling wall of pelts guards the entrance to the Igloolik Elders’ centre. The air is thick and sour with a mix of curing fish and seal meat, fox fur and a caribou skin stretched out on a wooden frame in front of the hall coat closet.… Read more
In the film, this qamutik (sled) belongs to Atanarjuat. It is made of
caribou antlers and bone carefully laced together with sinew cord. Water is
drizzled on the runners until it freezes, then made slick with a scrap of fur
so that travel over the ice and tundra is swift and smooth.