https://stringfigures.huma-num.fr/files/original/f7401b2a671bb498a02bffed7738a1b9.png 748481bb7375d79e011d0a81c6051dfe 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 portrays a caribou (tuktu) that gets down a hill. The caribou is first shown on the hill or hillside (innarillugu / kingallaagu, tappaaninnguarjuk) and then climbing down (aqqariaq&uni) until it gets at the bottom (iqqaqpalliannguaq&uni). This figure was documented in other Inuit societies, mostly among Inupiat of Utqiagvik (Barrow area, North Alaska), among the Arviligjuarmiut of the Canadian central Arctic, and in the South Baffin area. Construction method (ISFA) 1. Position 1. 2. Bend 3 so that 3 picks up (from above) the palmar string of its own hand, and returns, pointing up. 2 and 4 pick up strings on the palmar side of the opposite 2 and 4 in the manner of Opening A. 3. R2 rotates away from the body, passing over R3, R4 and R5 loops, around R5f, and then towards the body under all strings until proximally entering R1 loop. R2 hooks up R1n, rotating away from the body and up (= retraces its path). Release R1 loop. 4. Twist both R2 loops a full turn away from the body (= only R2 rotates with its loops away from the body, then turning towards the body and up). 5. R1 proximally passes through R2 loops. R1 and R2 grasp L2n and remove the L2 loop. Allow the double loop around R1 and R2 to slip off onto the single loop held between R1 and R2. 6. Release L1 loop and place the loop held between R1 and R2 over L1. Extend by pointing fingers away (with palms facing each other). This is the caribou on the hillside. Release 3 and 4 loops to represent the caribou climbing down the hill, to the plain. See Wirt & al. 2009: 43 for a step by step illustration. Closely related references (literature) "The caribou in the willows" (Utqiagvik/Barrow, northern Alaska), Jenness 1924: 35, XXV, fig. 32. Same method. With the utterance of a short sentence when obtaining the figure (sentence translated as: "The caribou, it is said, when it became hot, stayed in the willows, but when it grew cool it went away", Jenness 1924: 35). "Tuktorjuk kingasiortorjuk - le caribou sur la montagne" (Arviligjuarmiut), Mary-Rousselière 1969: 7-8, fig. 2. Close method. 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 TUKTURJUK INNARUMIITTURJUK / KINGALLAAGU, a caribou on the hillside 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 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