Qajaq

In the film, Atanarjuat paddles to shore in this qajaq (one-man canoe),
toward his summer camp and his wife Atuat, who is now expecting their son.

The qajaq was re-constructed by John MacDonald of the Igloolik Research
Institute based on detailed structural drawings of a qajaq in the Inuit
collection at the British Museum. The drawing, by Michael Morgan, was paid for
by Morton and Estelle Sosland.

The qajaq in the museum is almost 200 years old and actually comes from the
region of Igloolik, taken to England by the Parry Expedition of 1822-23. The
original structure consists of a whalebone frame and a skin-covering attached
with braided sinew.