Students study local designs at the Heritage Centre


Gunwhals being put into place


Chad and Mike go out to soak some caribou skins for covering


Students learn to use the bow and drill to make holes in the frame


Ribs are steamed, bent, and placed into qajaq


Stringers are then added


Students learned to tie knots with sinew (no nails or screws used)


The boat is coming together


Last details of frame


Luke (elder) and translater discuss qajaq building and hunting from experience.


The qajaqs were dispalyed at the Baker Lake artist/craftsperson sale with no small amount of interest in the students work. One qajaq is on display in the atrium of Jonah Amitnaaq Secondary School and the other is being donated to the Heritage centre here in Baker Lake. The heritage centre will be putting on a ceromony in January 2005 for students. This project was a large success with plans of qajaq building an a larger scale to thereby provide the youth here with a fleet of qajaqs to use in the future.