Polar bears - nanuit in inuktitut (singular: nanuq) - are omnipresent in the Inuit culture and the daily life, formerly as today. It is not thus surprising that the bear is a subject of preference for artists in all domains such as carving as graphic arts.
Who saw contemporary Inuit carvings immediately represents himself a polar [...]

In spite of the effects of the christianization, the tradition connected to the shamanism (angakkuuniq in inuktitut) continues, but with adjustments. If Inuit are today Anglican, Catholic or Pentecostal, many people always believe in shamanism: “we believe in these two systems” say the elders in the Canadian Arctic.
Animals and Humans
Formerly, animals constituted an essential [...]

The Tupilaq (tupilait in the plural) is a strong identity symbol of the Greenlander Inuit today as the Inuksuk is the one the Canadian Inuit. Even if they are both spread on an international scale on the art market and the tourist sphere, Tupilaq as Inuksuk draw their origin from ancestral historic past.
In Kalaalisut (the [...]