Louisa Angugatsiaq Tungilik was my beautiful mother. She was beautiful externally and in her heart.

One of her great abilities was to sew Inuit traditional clothes. When she sewed caribou skin clothing, her stitching was so fine it looked only like a fine line where her seams were. Her waterproof kamiit were exactly that, waterproof.

She came from a line of perfectionists, and she was no different. I… Continue reading