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Inuit traditionally wore clothing made from the animals they hunted. The fur of caribou is particularly warm as each hair is hollow which traps air and provides excellent insulation from the cold. Wolverine fur is exceptional as well as frost can be easily brushed from it. Today Inuit use a mixture of traditional clothing and store bought clothes. Although the materials may have changed the importance of being warm has not and an excellent seamstress continues to be respected. In the following activity students will appreciate the beauty and importance of Inuit traditional clothing as well as learn what Inuit youth their age wear today.
1. Instruct your students to look at the drawings in A Magical Journey to Visit Angulalik again. This time they should focus on the clothing that Kublu and Roy are wearing.
2. The males should make a paper doll of Roy and the females of Kublu so they can appreciate the differences between men’s and women’s traditional clothing. To make the doll use a heavy piece of paper. Draw and cut out the doll carefully. Students should decorate their character with markers or crayons to create a face.
3. Students will use the doll as a template to cut out clothing from colored paper, wallpaper scraps or material…it would be really interesting if you can find fur scraps. Use pieces of yarn for hair.
4. Each student will need to make two sets of clothes for their character. One set of clothes will represent what their character would have worn on the journey back in time to meet Angulalik. The second set of clothes will represent what their character would wear on a typical day in the present.
5. Throughout the story, students can learn the names of each part of the clothing and the animal it came from. There are plenty of websites for researching more about what Inuit wore traditionally and what they wear today. An Internet search on Inuit clothing will yield many interesting sites such as http://kativik.net/ulluriaq/Nunavik/inuitlife/whatis/what_is2.htm which was done by a grade 7 class in Nunavut.
6. On the KHS website there is a section on clothing design. Make sure your students read through this section (www.kitikmeotheritage.ca/Angulalk/whaler/clothing/clothing.htm).
7. Each student should have at least 4 different clothing garments for each doll for each era (to cover feet, legs, body, hands, head). Thus when complete they have two sets of clothes for their one doll (either male or female).
8. When your class has completed their doll and clothing and has researched the names of each garment, hold a fashion show in your class. To do so each student should ‘walk’ their doll at the front of the room while describing what the doll has on. For example, ‘Kublu is sporting a pair of caribou kamiks. Notice the duffle liner made to keep her warm and dry’.
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