https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/files/original/a98a7d078c37e464c970c0990584d1df.png 570332b21d6f81f3145e86450dba7cd0 https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/files/original/918c450cc0ac180701bd98ec091e89ee.png a440176eef5322510a5508969c9a0fea https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/files/original/d3af8ac6d36d8ff1f5978518dede4431.mp4 6e3a6cb104a47275ea2bbbe7507fb40e https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/files/original/314f022463cd13cde3723cd154647b85.mp4 d3cdf56fc08460d8597dc41c19299cd6 https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/files/original/c0d7d46a6c91733540a2963a9ec03e99.mp4 61e46156e5f66279c3ce1fbce001660e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sub-Corpus (Inuit IGLULIK) String Figures General presentation of the string figure This figure depicts a seal (nattiq) in an ice crack (qungniq). The circular pattern in the center represents the seal whereas the transverse strings portray the ice fissure. The figure is animated in such a way that the seal is seen popping up (he is then said to come up to breath) through the crack. The seal is generally represented as popping up several times (coming up and then getting down, and up again, back and forth). This figure was also recorded among the Arviligjuarmiut (Canadian central Arctic) and in Cape York (Perlernerit/Savissivik, northwestern Greenland). It may be that some words used to accompany the emergence of the seal when animating the figure in the Iglulik area, as this was the case among the Arviligjuarmiut ("Qunanit maunga nuitirtutit, nuitirtutit" - From the ice crack, this way, you emerge, you emerge, cf. Mary-Rousselière 1969: 104). The identity of this being popping up through the ice crack was not necessarily specified among the Arviligjuarmiut. Closely related references (literature) " Nuijartɔk·(sh)kuŋ puise - the seal comes up to breath" (Cape York), Paterson 1949:43-44, fig. 132. With a slightly different method of making (compared to the one presented here for Iglulik). "Qunarmiutak / qungnermiutak - celui qui est dans la crevasse", "qunarmit nuitertorjuk - celui qui sort de la crevasse" (Arviligjuarmiut), Mary-Rousselière 1969: 103-104, fig. 88. Same method as the one described by Paterson. Construction method (contributor-s’ description) Paniaq stresses that the making of this figure begins the same as in making the figure of the fox, TIRIGANNIARJUTTIAQ. Construction method (ISFA) 1. Opening C (as in making tiriganniarjuttiaq, the fox). = Place the string around 1 and extend, insert 2 from below into 1 loop and stretch 1 and 2 apart. 5 moves towards the body, passes under (TV) 1n, pushes this string away from the body (1n is thus on the back of 5) and hooks down (TV) 2f, closing to the palm. (You can bend 4 over the crossing point between 1n and 2f to secure the figure). 2. Bring the two hands close to one another, with palms facing each other. L1 passes over R1n-R2n and hooks that string, pulling it gently to the left (L1 remains hooked, pointing away from the body). Remove R1. R1 passes over L1n-L2n and hooks that string, pulling it gently to the right (R1 remains hooked, pointing outwards). Extend (with 5 remaining hooked-close to the palm, and 1 and 2 pointing outwards. 4 is-are removed). 3. R1 passes over R5n, picks up that string (=from the far side) close to R5, and returns through the original R1 loop. Release R5 loop. R5 enters R1 loop from below and hooks down R1n, closing to the palm. Release R1 loop. 4. L1 passes over L5n and picks it up (from the far side), returning through the original L1 loop. 5. R1 picks up the transverse string running on the far side in the center of the figure (R1 passing then over all the strings that are under this TV string), and returns. 6. Remove 2. An image of a seal (nattinnguaq) is formed vertically, while the two transverse strings in the center represent the ice crack. To make the seal pop up through the crack, raise 1 (thus lifting L1f and R1n). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource QUNGNIRJUK, (a seal in) the ice crack or fissure Subject The topic of the resource String figure; String game; Inuit; Iglulik; Eastern Canada; Arctic Description An account of the resource Iglulingmiut (Amitturmiut) Inuit string figure (Nunavut, Canada): symbolism, method of construction, references to the same figure as documented among different Inuit groups (Alaska, Canada, Greenland) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Céline Petit Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Laboratory SPHERE (UMR 7219, University of Paris & CNRS) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2005-2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Herve PANIAQ, Iglulik, Nunavut, Canada (and Celina IRNGAUT, interpreter, Iglulik) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons / Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA Language A language of the resource Inuktitut ; English Type The nature or genre of the resource Ethnographical data, text, image, moving image, sound Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Iglulik (Igloolik), Nunavut, Canada