• Q: Where did you spend your seasons?
• A: We would spend our spring camps along the river side and up to the rapids in Ittimnigigut.
• Q: Did you spend your spring camp along the Baker Lake area?
• A: I have not been to Baker Lake at that time.
• Q: From Perry River did you move to Cambridge Bay?
• A: Yes. Angulalik and his family remained here at Perry River, from Perry River to Cambridge Bay and from Cambridge Bay we moved to Baker Lake via aeroplane, that’s where we remained since.
• Q: Were there a lot of people from Baker Lake to trade at Perry River, did you remember some people?
• A: People from the Garry Lake (Hanninngayuk) area came here to trade.
• Q: Was there any kind of trade or would other people come to visit?
• A: Yes. I remember people coming from the Garry Lake area when Ekvana and Angulalik were newlyweds, people started coming. Tapatai came with a missionary by dog team along with Otak and Ugyuk. Their clothing was different from ours – their trousers were long, I started thinking ‘maybe their trousers are wide enough to ---- and also their stockings were so much longer than ours’.

Tape 1 – Page Three
Interview with Taipana

• Q: Who are your parents?
• A: My father’s name was Utugauk, my mother’s name was Tikkikluk. My siblings were Panaktannoak, I was second, a sister name Aulayuk, Mingilgak and Okalitana is the youngest.
• Q: Were your parents from this area?
• A: Yes, this area, Ellice River and Kulgayuk. My birthplace was in Ellice River. Kuunayuk is where I learned to hunt and survive, where I became a young man and where I was chosen a bride.
• Q: Where was your wife from?
• A: My wife was from the Perry River area, her name was Unnguk. My eldest brother Panaktannoak came to Perry River along with myself to pick her up. This is where we remained and raised a family.
• Q: How many children did you have with your first wife?
• A: Eldest child was Kolaohok a female; second to her was Amegainek; younger than Amegainek is Tikkiklok wife of Jimmy Wingnek, these were the children with his first wife. There was a fourth child born the same day as Amegainek, his twin brother. He was adopted out but did not live, he was adopted to Hovak and Kanayuk. He suffocated while asleep, and another child suffocated just shortly after being born. We had had live children, me and my first wife.