Building Anew: Ephemerality and the Igluvigaq (Igloo)

Building Anew: Ephemerality and the Igluvigaq (Igloo)

Support NiCHE’s Work, Contribute to our 2025 Fundraising Campaign Here. Editor’s Note: This is the eighth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by Isabelle Gapp and guest edited by Sarah Pickman. In the early nineteenth century, when ukiuq (winter) sufficiently thickened the eastern Arctic’s sea ice, nations moved out onto that ice to build large seal-hunting settlements of igluvigait (igloos), an architect…