Recollections From The Past with Amos Tumma

Collection

Citation

Tumma, Amos, “Recollections From The Past with Amos Tumma,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed August 8, 2025, https://inuvialuitdigitallibrary.ca/items/show/1215.

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Title

Recollections From The Past with Amos Tumma

People

Tumma, Amos

Date

[197-?]

Description

Elder Amos Tumma is telling stories from when he was a boy in the early 1900’s of when the European bowhead whalers would winter at Qikiqtarr̂uq and the events he witnessed. He also tells of a widow and her two sons who were always hunting and providing for and helping others, of how disagreements were settled by men, of fearless feats, and tells of his trapping and hunting stories.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0200