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Construction d'un qajaq de type Ivujivik à l'école Nuvviti.Construction of an Ivujivik type qajaq at Nuvviti School.

Qajaq construction at Nuvviti School in Ivujivik, February 2020.

Davd Zimmerly's photos of Puvirnitumiut building a qajaq in Toronto (1976) followed by fifteen years of qajaq building and paddling (2002 to 2016) as part of the Qajaq Project at Iguarsivik School in Puvirnituq.

Bending, cutting and fitting the "Tikpiit" in the Puvirnituq Qajaq Shop.

We were invited to present the Puvirnituq Qajaq Project during the IPSSAS conference in Wendake, Quebec, in May 2013.

We had the great opportunity of having Maligiaq teach us more advanced rolling right here in Puvirnituq!

It's fun!With Aisa Sivuarapik, Noadamie Qumaluk and Charlie Sivuarapik (first hand roll!).

New roll by Juanassie Eliyassialuk!

On prépare des sushis une fois semaine pour amasser des $$ en vue de notre prochain voyage: cinq jours de qajaq avec le champion groënlandais Maliqiaq Padilla!We raise money once a week for our next trip: five days of qajaq training with Greenland Champion Maliqiaq Padilla!

Puvirnituq students making paddles for their next kayaking season.

Chef Noadamie Qumaluk takes a brake from the Qajaq Shop to show us how he makes his famous Pizza Pop!

 Puvirnituq qajaq shop students having fun teaching themselves Greenland rope gymnastic with the help of Dubside's "Qajaasaarneq" video. This form of gymnastic is a component of traditional kayak training in Greenland. 

Snow, ice and wind gusting at 70 km/h!

Does it really work??

Installing the nylon skins in Mingan, Quebec after a long airplane ride from Puvirnituq to Sept-Iles.It's now ready for the scenic painters. Our job is done!

They're on their wat to Montreal by jet then to Havre-St-Pierre by truck.  

Puvirnituq students practicing their kayak rolls in the boats they built at school.

Puvirnituq Iguarsivik students showing and teaching their qajaq skills in Kuujjuarapik swimming pool.The skin-on-frame qajaaq were built by themselves in Puvirnituq!

Puvirnituq students at Iguarsivik school building two umiak frames as props for the movie "Maïna".These umiaks are inspired by the 1885 Hudson Strait Umiak from the Adney & Chapelle's book "The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America".