INUINNAQTUN PITIKSILIURNIQ
THE INUINNAQTUN BOW MAKING TRADITION
HANAVIK / THE WORKING PLACE
Innuinait tradition required that tool making and repairing activities be conducted away from the tent. The place where the men from camp would gather to work on their tools was called the hanavik or working place.
Copper Inuk man hammering out arrowheads, Coppermine River June 1, 1916 (John Ruggles Cox/CMH/39673)
Avrunna repairing his bow at Lake Ammalurtuq, 29 July 1915. (Diamond Jenness/CMH/37058)
Inuk man making arrows at Armstrong Point, Northwest Territories, May 19, 1916 (John Hadley/CMH/63447)
Coronation Gulf Inuk, Kox-shuk-tok, seated in front of his tent, putting sinew lashing for backing on three-piece bow lashed to another piece of wood to hold it rigid.Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition, 1908-1912, 10 am. (Rudolph Martin Anderson/Library and Archives Canada/PA-127405)