Recherche dans la collection - Rebecca Nagjugaq Irngaut, wife of Isaac Irngaut, scrapes and cleans excess fat and meat from a caribou hide with a curved knife called an ulu. She moves her hand repetitiously with an almost meditative quality, before pausing to bite, tear, pull and eat pieces of fat from the fresh skin. The skins are then pegged to the ground so they dry flat. Fall skins are the best for making clothes, and this is also the time when the tunnuq (fat) is considered a delicacy. Steensby Inlet, north Baffin Island, 1978.

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