Greenland Inuit - Black and White

Arctic People Galleries

Kigutikak Duneq dressed in caribou skin, uses a large knife to cut a piece of Maktaaq (whale skin) to eat. Qaanaaq. Thule. Northwest Greenland. 1971
During a tea break on a hunting trip, Kigutikkaq Kivioq, an Inuit boy in furs waits for a pan of snow to boil on a primus stove. Qaanaaq, Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Inuit hunter, Kigutikaq Duneq, waits with his rifle for a seal to surface at the floe edge. Qaanaaq. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Kigutikaq Duneq drags a small ringed seal he has killed from the floe edge. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Kigutikkaq Kivioq, an Inuit boy, asleep on a sled during a hunting trip at the floe edge near Narsaq. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Orfik Duneq, his wife Judithe & daughter Jacobine use an ice floe as a raft to cross a wide lead in late spring. Qaanaaq. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Inuit family use an ice floe as a raft to cross a wide lead in late spring. Qaanaaq. Northwest Greenland. 1971
Sinarujuk Sadorana, an Inuit woman with few teeth smoking a pipe, sitting by her house. Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Portrait of Qalaseq Duneq an elderly Inuk from Qaanaaq wearing a wooly hat and traditional anorak. Thule Northwest Greenland. 1971
Jess Qujaukitsok prepares to get into his kayak from the ice, Inglefield Bredning. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Jess Qujaukitsok paddles his kayak round some tidal ice floes in Inglefield Bredning. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Inuit women and children fishing at a lead in the sea ice during the late Spring. Qaanaaq, Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Masautsiak Eipe and Jess Qujaukitsok skinning a bearded seal on the beach at Inerssussat. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Ole Petersen with a white whale he has harpooned from his kayak. Qaanaaq, Thule, NW Greenland. 1971

Jess Qujaukitsok in his white camouflage kajak anorak, enjoys a pipe at his summer camp at Inerssussat. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Asapanguaq, an elderly Inuk from Qaanaaq in spectacles and hat, Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Inuit hunter, Masautsiak Eipe, checks the harpoon and throwing board on his kayak. Qaanaaq. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Qalaseq Duneq, an elderly inuk in traditional summer clothing, bear skin pants, sealskin boots and cotton anorak. Northwest Greenland. 1971

Thomas Qujaukitsok, an Inuit boy, laughing at Inerssussat. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Whale meat and intestines dry in the wind on an inuit family's drying rack at Inerssussat. Qaanaaq. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Magssanguak Imina making a traditional string puzzle that represents a tent, while sitting in a tent. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Qalaseq Duneq, an elderly inuk, wearing his waterproof Kayak vest, stops for a cup of tea. Qaanaaq. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Inuit men stand on the beach as the year's first supply ship arrives at Qaanaaq. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971
Inuit hunters in their kayaks on a narwhal hunt in Inglefield Bredning. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1971

Storm in the Inuit village of Siorapaluk, blows snow around the sleds and houses. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1977
Otto Simigak with a mug of tea during a break on a hunting trip in light snow. Siorapaluk, Northwest Greenland. 1977

Utuniak Eipe skins a seal that he has shot at its breathing hole in the sea ice. Qaanaaq, Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1977
Ingepaluk Neqe, an Inuit hunter, feeds raw seal meat to his team of huskies while on a hunt at Pitoraavik. Northwest Greenland. 1977

Freezing fog enshrouds a group of Inuit hunters as they stop for a tea break on sea ice near Pitoraavik. Northwest Greenland. 1977
Group of inuit hunters haul a dead walrus onto the sea ice near during a hunt near Pitoraavik. Northwest Greenland. 1977

Kaugunak Qissuk pulls on his kamik in his tent while out hunting. Northwest Greenland. 1977
Inuit hunter with his team of huskies pulling a dog sled. NW. Greenland. 1977

Inuit hunters, Otto Simigak and Kaugunak Qissuk in their tent on a hunting trip. Siorapaluk, Northwest Greenland. 1977
A team of huskies pulls a wooden boat on a sled as an Inuit hunter and his family set off for the floe edge to hunt. Siorapaluk, Northwest Greenland. 1977

Inuit hunters with kayaks in a line, return towing a dead whale to shore after a successful hunt. Qeqertat. Northwest Greenland. 1977
Agpalinguaq Imina,an Inuit boy, counts on his fingers during a maths lesson in the village school at Siorapaluk. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1977
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