Qaggiq (Gathering Place) - 1989 Photo Archive

By Isuma, 1989

QAGGIQ (GATHERING PLACE) 1988

First Isuma recreated fiction. A late-winter Inuit camp in the 1930's. Four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl's father says no, but her mother says yes... 

Watch here: http://www.isuma.tv/isuma-productions/qaggiq-gathering-place