Makivik Magazine Issue 72
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Puvirnituq Builds World's Largest Igloo?<br />
By Isabelle Dubois<br />
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On Friday, March 18th, preceding the 2005 Puvirnituq Snow<br />
Festival, the first snow blocks of what was hoped to become the<br />
largest igloo ever built were put in place on the edge of Qikirtakallak,<br />
an island beside the community.<br />
Jacusie Ittukallak, Johnny Uitangak and Lucasie Qumaluk, led<br />
by the president of the snow festival's committee, Peter Ittukallak,<br />
worked day in and day out (except on Sunday) to make the dream<br />
come true. Adding to the challenge, the unusually warm weather<br />
in the weeks prior to the festival made the consistency of the<br />
snow uneven.<br />
For the first couple of days, they assembled countless blocks<br />
of snow, securing each of them carefully with<br />
slush. Then, with the help of other men coming<br />
from the neighbouring communities (notably<br />
Charlie Nowkawalk from Inukjuak) as well as students<br />
of the Pigiursavik Vocational School, the<br />
finishing touches were made. The men worked<br />
until after dusk on the final day. Around eight<br />
o'clock in the evening of Wednesday, March<br />
23rd, Peter Itukallak put in the very last piece<br />
that that made the igloo complete and the men<br />
started cheering with excitement and pride.<br />
They hugged one another to congratulate themselves<br />
on the task they had accomplished. The igloo was indeed<br />
a testimony of ingenuity.<br />
The igloo had a circumference of 122 ft by 16 feet and<br />
three inchesand was made of 670 snow blocks: each measuring<br />
approximately two feet and five inches wide, by one foot and seven<br />
inches high, by nine inches deep.<br />
SAMMY KUDLUK
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