I nuit in all parts of the North tell of the great legendary traveller, Kivioq. Many versions of the Kivioq story-cycle have been preserved through oral tradition, and today, a new generation of Inuit storytellers are reincarnating these tales in written or graphic form.

In one familiar episode, depicted here by Baker Lake artist, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, Kivioq takes a bird-woman as his wife by stealing her feather coat. Discontented, she leaves him, taking their bird-children with her. Kivioq follows and, with the help of the fish-maker — who summons a great salmon to carry Kivioq on its tail — is reunited with his family.

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