Oral History
Storytelling
Lifestyle
Family
Travels
Trapping
Agnes White is storytelling and sharing memories from her younger days from Blue Box Harbour and of when they first went there in 1942.
This recording is from the Aulavik Oral History Project undertaken by the Inuvialuit Social Development Program.
White, Agnes
Inuvialuktun
Portrait photographs
Boats
A photo of a boat in the water near St. Roch Island.
This photo collection was used during the interviews of the Aulavik Oral History Project to get the names of people previously not identified.
Physical collection housed at the NWT Archives.
Fishes
Fishing
Arctic Ocean
A photo of a boat full of fish from Horton River.
Rivers
Nature
The photo shows a couple of boats on the shore of a river.
Log Cabins
Tents
The image shows a summer camp that is made up of a few tents and a log cabin. We can also see that the shore is full of boats. Credit: Martha Harry
Inglangasuk, Lennie
The image shows boats pulling into shore.
Bowhead Whaling
Iced In
Sail Boating
Hunting
Animals
Various Families
Drum Song
Drum Dance
Drygoods
Trading Posts
Elder Amos Tumma is storytelling about when boats were iced in, when bowhead whaling season was done, of their travels, of trapping and hunting, then continuing their sailing journey after the winter, and making their way to the trading posts to Iglukpak and Katyaaq (Tschigehchic).
Tumma, Amos
Iñupiatun
Whaling
White whale
A photo of four whaling boats in the distance.
Photographs
A photo of three boats in snow during winter.
Coasts
Camps
The image shows a few men with a couple of dogs standing beside two boats, with a couple of buildings in the background. Credit: Agnes Gruben White
A photo of two whaling boats on a beach.
Digital images
A photo of boats at a landing on the Mackenzie River.
Hunt, David E., 1925-
A photo of four whaling boats on the water.
Telephone
Gully, Brian
Gully, Bob
Cockney, Bob
English
Clothing and dress
Gruben, Bobbie
Gruben, Eddie
A photo of Bobbie and Eddie Gruben in traditional clothing performing some kind of task. Credit: Emma Gruben Fietchtinger
Music
Guitars
Buildings
A photo of Bobby Gruben and Roger Gruben playing guitars with another child standing to the right.
Northern Games
Body Weight Contest
The photo shows a Body Weight Contest with people from Inuvik at the Eskimo Olympics in Fairbanks Alaska.
Information provided in 1996 during Aulavik Oral History Project.
Art
Sculpture
Carving
The photo shows a nice carving sculpture that displays a man kneeling down with a bow and another man with a harpoon.
Bowhead whale
Allen, Titus
Dick(Abraham), Abba
A photo of the remains of a bowhead whale.
A photo of a bowhead whale skull on the shore at north end of Cape Parry.
Bowhead Whale
Whalerss
Cape Parry
A photo of a bowhead skull on the shore at Cape Parry.
Bowhead Vertebra at North End of Cape Parry
A photo of a bowhead vertebra by the water near the whaler's camp at Cape Parry.
Whales
Artifacts
A photo of a bowhead whale rib and rusted iron artifacts at the whaler's camp in Cape Parry.