Caribou Drive Diorama

The caribou drive diorama is depicting a hunter and his son hiding in a hunting blind or taluq, at the end of a caribou drive. The caribou drive in the diorama scene is an actual drive that was located by archaeologist Max Friesen at Iqaluktuuq.

A caribou drive was constructed out of a line of markers or inuksuit. A piece of turf was placed on top of them to make them look human. Beaters would follow the caribou making sounds and movements to scare them towards the waiting hunters who were waiting with their bows, sometimes in a taluq (blind).

           Frank Analok Ekalluk

...by putting dirt on the tops [of the inuksuit] would make them look like people, because it looks like a human head it would scare the caribou away... I have seen the remains of them, sometimes they would be really small, the tops of markers... My adoptive parents would tell me about using them during the fall caribou hunt...It was our ancestors that used bows and arrows that made the markers...The women would make noises, they would make some sort of sound...Uu-uuu, uu-uuu, yeah, making noises... Yeah, women, they would deter the caribou toward the men that were waiting with their bows, yeah, the women. (Frank Analok )