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Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1974-10-10

Robert Kimaktok: Kugluktuk: Spider feeds orphan. 1974

Spider feeds orphan (cf. Metayer #41); and the origin of white foxes.

Subject:

Orphan, Spider, White fox

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-29

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: When women had tails. 1976

A long time ago, women had tails. A man saved himself by breaking off the tail of a woman who never wanted to marry. He paddled away in his kayak and the woman wished the kayak to turn him over but it didn’t…

Subject:

kayak, marriage, Tails

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1975-10-07

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Uinigumaguittuk. 1975

A spear-chinned women tries to make a man eat, so he eats grass to make his stomach bigger. A man tried to feed his wife to sea-lice.

Subject:

Sea-lice, Uinigumaguittuk

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-09

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Two stories about Raven. 1976

Two stories about raven.

Subject:

Raven

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-29

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Two Brothers and an ogre (inuqarnaidlak). 1976

Two brothers escape from an ogre (inuqarnaidlak) and bring back to life the ogre’s victims.

Subject:

Brothers, Inuqarnaidlak, Ogre

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-09

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Tuniit, Nagjuktuuk. 1976

An account of a frightful bear made and sent by the Tuniit to kill Inuit at Nagjuktuuk a long time ago.

Subject:

Bear, Nagjuktuuk, Tuniit

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-26

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Times of no caribou. 1976

A long time ago, there were no caribou. Also, there were no birds…

Subject:

Birds, Caribou

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-26

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: The origin of light. 1976

Long ago, there was no day, only darkness…

Subject:

Adoption, Bird, The origin of light

Creator:

Jose Angutingnungnik, Robert Kimaktot, Teresa Nip

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-26

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: The food making machine. 1976

The food making machine – a poor man buys a little food maker, a rich man offers a boat for it.

Subject:

boat, Food

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1975-10-31

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Stefansson, Bernard, and Jenness. David Katik’s first flour. 1975

Stefansson, Joe Bernard, Riffles, Jenness, also David Katik- first flour / short song re: food, his riffles and bullets

Subject:

David Katik, Jenness, Joe Bernard, rifles, Song

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-09

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Raven embarrases young woman into marriage. 1976

Raven embarrasses a young woman into marriage.

Subject:

marriage, Raven

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1974-10-09

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Qingmiarjualuk. 1976

With schoolkids

Subject:

Schoolkids

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-22

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Qaviilarmiut (inlanders) trade with coastal people. 1976

Qaviilarmiut (inlanders) trade with coastal people: young man eats his victim’s liver so relations remain peaceful

Subject:

Qaviilarmiut, Trade

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1977-01-16

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Qakhaut’s wife. 1977

Qakhaut’s wife is resurrected by angatku, who sings a song.

Subject:

angatku, Qakhaut, Song

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1974-10-10

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Q and the whale-man. 1974

Q and the whale-man

Subject:

Whale

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1974-10-10

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Origin of clouds; Stories about bear, fox and whale. 1974, Part 1

Origin of clouds; bear catches woman who escapes; fox makes light.

Subject:

Clouds, Fox, Whale, Woman

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-26

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Maquq, a man has meal with wolf, gull, raven. 1976

Maquq, a man has meal with wolf, gull, raven.

Subject:

Gull, Maquq-man, Raven, Wolf

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-06

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Man skinning caribou. 1976

Man skinning caribou kills bird, given bag full of fox ears, but not to drink. But is thirsty, drinks and foxes spill out all over land.

Subject:

Bird, Caribou, Fox

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-09

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Loon and Okpik. 1976

Robert Kimaktok talks about how a loon once stabbed his partner, Okpik.

Subject:

Loon, okpik

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-06

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Hunting. 1976

A man tries to get rid of his son-in-law by sending him to hunt a dangerous animal in high winds but he overcomes the dangers and in turn sends his father-in-law hunting.

Subject:

Hunting

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-13

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Deceit. 1976

Woman deceives husband and entertains lover who rises out of the ground when she sings. Her husband finds out. Includes comment linking to another story

Subject:

Deceit

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-24

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Angohujjuk brings his parents to life. 1976

Angohujjuk brought his parents back to life after returning from the polar bears.

Subject:

Angohujjuk

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-26

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Aglekpaktuk, eider duck, and wolves. 1976, Part 2

Eider duck and her young visit wolves and are not given anything to eat because the hunters are away.

Subject:

Aglekpaktuk, Eider duck, Food, Wolves

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-25

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Abandonment. 1976

One partner abandons the other one on an island and returns next year to find his bones, but the abandoned one survived…

Subject:

Abandonment

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-07

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: A wife taken by caribou; An albino seal. 1976

When a man’s wife doesn’t return, he discovers she has been taken by caribou. Kimaktok also talks about once shooting an albino seal, whose fur was all white.

Subject:

Caribou, Seal

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-03

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: A traveler and food. 1976

A traveler comes upon three women, each of whom gives him food he must eat, or be stabbed by one of the women’s chin (which is a copper blade). If he eats all the food they give him, he will explode. He manages to eat it all and survive, with the help of grass.

Subject:

Food, Grass, Travellers

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-06

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: A giant adopts a man. 1976

A giant adopts a man; two giantesses come and visit.

Subject:

Adoption, Giant

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-03

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Kiinakittuk is a harbour seal in human form. 1976

Kiinakittuk (small face) is a harbour seal (qasigiak) in human form.

Subject:

Kiinakittuk, Seal

Creator:

Robert Kimaktot

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-23

Harry Taliriktut, Kugluktuk: Angohujjuk brought parents back to life. 1976

A story about Angohujjuk, who brought his parents back to life after returning from living with polar bears.

Subject:

Angohujjuk

Creator:

Harry Taliriktuk

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-22

Harry Taliriktuk, Kugluktuk: The dog-man, strong, who slays the ogres. 1976

The dog-man, strong, who slays the ogres. His mother and brother pull the sled.

Subject:

Dog-man, Ogre, Sled

Creator:

Harry Taliriktuk