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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wow this is a cool photo, do you have more details for it?

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Actually the reverse search got some more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Konek

Konek is an elder,[7][1] and lives in Arviat, Nunavut.

Very cool, thank you for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe to have read that Inuit is the plural and Inuk the singular.

I am not sure though if one is supposed to use singular or plural though in this context (like "a girl od the Inuit" or rather "a girl thats an Inuk")

Sorry for being pedantic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As I understand it, Inuit is still the accepted ethnonym, in both singular and plural. So an Inuk but an Inuit girl, I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

🤔 ✍️

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You know she's seen some shit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that expression is saying "wtf are you doing in my house taking my picture?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Her expression says "I hope I won't bump into the photographer who asked to take a shot of me, because with the sun setting low in my back, I can't see shit as I'm walking down the stairs."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

She looks like she's having nunavut.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Neat, I am also interested in the fact there are stairs meaning this was a more permanent structure then what most think of as an igloo.

Maybe more like one of these? https://cdn.britannica.com/22/69922-050-C5873480/Cross-section-dwelling-peoples-North-American-Arctic.jpg

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like it's shaped in a way to trap heat, but then the smoke vent just negates that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Naw the smoke vent will not vent too much heat. I kinda want to build one and find out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can make stairs out of snow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ok sure (not really) but why would you need stairs on a tundra?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  1. More space.

  2. More of the shelter is out of the wind.

  3. The deeper you go, the closer to the 'average' temperature you get, which is usually less miserable than whatever thermometer-breaking sub-zero temperature snap is causing people who are used to the weather to seek shelter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The interior of well-built igloos was usually in the 60s (F). Quite cozy considering it's the fucking Arctic Circle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you tryed digging frozen ground? You would not do that for a short term dwelling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some igloos are made for long-term habitation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes but not the ones people have the image of in their head. Like the picture I showed above. The picture seems to be of a substantial version and I wish I could know more about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Lacking doors, this is a way to cut down on wind coming into your igloo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

My guess is that it's easier to dig out a structure than build one from the ground up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This is a very arresting photograph isn’t it. Thanks for sharing c:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of why I stopped playing Skyrim.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

You met a beautiful woman focused on survival that looks down on you if you play videogames?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago