Louisa uses this ulu to propare sealskins
Louisa uses this ulu to propare sealskins

In the morning, I wake up at five. I cook breakfast and I wake them up. Soon as they finish breakfast they go off to see the nets and I will stay home and cook dinner or

wash clothes, make pitsik, or clean the tent. Sometimes I make donuts using seal fat oil - seal fat for my Crisco Oil. I'm used to it and I love it. Seal fat is used for everything, but it has to be fresh seal fat to make oil. You rise the dough and start cutting up the seal fat to put in the pot. You boil the fat in the iron pot and you just put the donuts in.

We look for seals in the speedboat. I save everything off the seal. I clean the sealskin with my ulu - the knife I use to scrape off the oil. Then I wash the skin in detergent - Arctic Power I use real good for sealskin. I put it in a frame and hang it outside to dry. The sealskin is really good for mitts and boots. My mother used to sew the sealskins to make the kayak; clean them first, take the hair off, and sew it very neat. My father used to have this big, big kayak and me and my sister could fit inside. He would get everything with the kayak - flour and sugar, and sometimes he used to hunt for animals by kayak. One of the kayaks belong to my father is in the museum here in Nain.


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