In the late 1960s, the owner of these Inuit carvings was a dental officer on Baffin Island in the Arctic, travelling from settlement to settlement and providing dental care. Patients would often ...

across the Canadian far north, and up to the coast of Greenland. While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo ...