There's one at MEC on 10th Ave. and 8th St. :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by edv
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There's one at MEC on 10th Ave. and 8th St. :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by edv
Is it a big pile of rocks, balancing on top of each other? I am thinking of a post card I once got from Canada (sp: Nunavit?) of a such a structure??
Caroline, you are 50% of the way there...and in the interest of having another question in there, I will give the rest to you.
It is a pile of rocks arranged as if it was a little man, or stone figure. In Innuit, it means "Stone Person" and the Innuit in the Arctic put them up as markers to guide them back to their camps/settlements (since they were nomads, how much was just favourite valleys to set up shop in is a question) or to lead them along a route between one location and other.
The symbol of the 2012 Vancouver Olympics is a stylized Inukshuk, which is kind of sad really, because with the vibrant West Coast native culture of totem poles, I think some art work from that style would have been much more appropriate and local than the Inukshuk, which exists in Nunavut and the Northwest Terrortories in the Arctic Archipeligo. It isn't a woodland thing or a mountain thing, it is a barrenlands necessity.
So go ahead Caroline...put up a nice question to have us all tormented!
I would add that there is a language associated to them: different arrangements mean different things, like "water that way", or "settlement nearby", etc.
When you drive along the Trans Canada highway in Ontario you can see a lot of them at the side of the road. But my Inuit friends have told me that they are wrong, in the sense that they mean nothing (i.e. they have not being laid down by Inuit).
"Next rest stop 100kms."Quote:
Originally Posted by tinchote
the Inuit are the true founders of it. We in the rest of Canada just like glomming onto the idea for fun, but for those guys lost in a snowstorm or stumbling around in the near dark of winter, they could save their lives.....just by letting the people know they were heading the right way.
Anyhow, Caroline, the honour is yours.....
Thanks. Can't promise a nice question though ;)
Ok, the Casamance River flows into the Atlantic, but which country does it flow through on its journey?
I'll take a stab and say somewhere in North Africa?