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Place

Place

Subject

Subject

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-10-10

Robert Kimaktok: Kugluktuk: Spider feeds orphan. 1976

Spider feeds orphan (cf. Metayer #41), white fox

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-29

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: When women had tails. 1976

A long time ago, women had tails. A man saves himself by breaking off the tail of a woman who never wanted to marry. He paddles away in his kayak and she wishes him to turn over, but she…

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-09

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Tuniit, Nagjuktuuk. 1976

Tuniit, bear-Nagjuktuuk- tunit’s house ruins

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-03-12

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Travellers and food. 1976

Travellers, food, grass

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-24

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Times of no caribou. 1976

Time when no caribou, no birds

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-26

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: The origin of light. 1976

The origin of light

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.

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1977-01-16

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Storytelling with schoolchildren. 1977

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

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-10-31

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Stefansson, Bernard, and Jenness. David Katik’s first flour. 1976

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

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

31/10/1976

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Stefansson, Bernard, and Jenness. David Katik’s first flour. 1976

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

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

2024-09-12

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Raven story. 1976

Raven

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-09

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

Raven embarrases young woman into marriage

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-10-10

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Qingmiarjualuk. 1976

Uinigumaguittuk (women used to have tails). Man tried to feed his wife to sea-lice

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

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-10-10

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Q and the whale-man. 1976

Q and the whale-man

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-09-12

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Marriage. 1976

Marriage

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-11

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Man wants to feed wife to kingoppak. 1976

Man wants to feed wife to kingoppak, but her brother…

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-03-06

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.

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-09-12

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Loon and okpik 1976

Loon stabs his partner, Okpik

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

2024-07-12

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Loon and magic. 1976

Loon, magic

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

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

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1974-09-10

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Clouds, fox and whale. 1974 tape 2

Clouds, fox, whale, marries woman

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1974-10-10

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Clouds, fox and whale. 1974

Clouds, fox, whale, woman

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

2024-11-29

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Brothers, the ogre, and inuqarnaidlak. 1976

Brothers, ogre, inuqarnaidlak

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-24

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

Angohujjuk brought parents to life

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-26

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

Aglekpaktuk. Eider duck visits wolves. No food.

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-11-25

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: Abandonment. 1976

Abandonment

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-07-12

Robert Kimaktok, Kugluktuk: A wife taken by caribou. 1986

Wife taken by caribou, albino seal

Place:

Kugluktuk

Date:

1976-12-06

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

A giant adopts a man, giantesses

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