Uvajuq by David F. Pelly

Author:David F. Pelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1999-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

Qalutaarjuk and her husband Nakimajaaq at Read Island, 1936.

On the sea ice near Perry River, May 1952, hunters search for seals: (1 to r) George Oakoak, Stephen Angulalik (kneeling), Donald Kogvik, Patsy Topilikon, and David Ikpakuhak.

Several family groups would gather together for the winter, to form a relatively large seal-hunting camp on the sea-ice. Every day, the men would go out seal hunting, each man to a different hole, where he would stand patiently, silently, holding a harpoon, waiting for a seal to rise for air. Dogs were used to help find the seals’ breathing holes. All the proceeds (on average, less than one seal per man) would be shared in the camp at day’s end. In that manner they survived the winter. In the spring, camp was moved onto the shore, but seal hunting continued among the ice pans during break-up, until it was time to once again head inland, for the spring fishery, when many families would return to Iqaluktuuttiaq, at the base of the hill known as Uvajuq.

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