Makivik Magazine Issue 100
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A circle of rocks.<br />
When they wanted to catch a fox, Inuit built<br />
fox traps made of stones. They used rocks that had<br />
a flat side that formed the inside wall of a circular<br />
structure whose floor was about two metres<br />
in diameter. The diameter became smaller going<br />
towards the top, which was left open. Rocks were<br />
placed all around the structure to allow the fox<br />
to have access to the hole. Bait was put into the<br />
trap and the hole was covered with the wings of<br />
a bird. The curious fox fell through the camouflaged<br />
wings and became trapped.<br />
To get caribou, Inuit erected many individual<br />
rocks close to one another in a strategic place.<br />
Those can be seen today in a few places on the<br />
tundra, but nobody uses them now.<br />
At other times, Inuit hunted geese by hiding<br />
behind blinds made of rocks on the tops of hills.<br />
They waited patiently for the birds to fly close<br />
during late spring and early fall.<br />
To fish in rivers during the fall, Inuit built<br />
weirs of rocks in ideal areas when the migrating<br />
Arctic char swam upstream from the salt sea. The<br />
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What is perhaps most interesting is that there are mysterious<br />
ruins of rocks that form circles in some spots around the vicinity<br />
of Ivujivik. These can be as wide as five or six metres in diameter,<br />
having walls of huge boulders that are a metre high.<br />
confused fish had difficulty finding the route. The<br />
men, women and youth cooperated in the catching<br />
of the fish, using spears. A new fish trap was<br />
built every year because rocks that had been<br />
put up in the fall were damaged by many gigantic<br />
pieces of ice that rushed downstream during<br />
the following spring thaw.<br />
What is perhaps most interesting is that there<br />
are mysterious ruins of rocks that form circles in<br />
some spots around the vicinity of Ivujivik. These<br />
can be as wide as five or six metres in diameter,<br />
having walls of huge boulders that are a metre<br />
high. Touching those walls inside the structure<br />
are seating platforms that are all around the circumference<br />
except at the entrance part. They had<br />
been erected near the shore on flat rock surfaces<br />
in a summer camp. There are pieces of big rocks<br />
in the middle with a flat top probably for displaying<br />
something. There appears to be only one such<br />
structure in each of the ruins of a summer camp.<br />
It’s likely that they were not meant to be homes<br />
because what would have been the sleeping<br />
platform is missing. And they are different from
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