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Subject: [OM] Re: Inukshuk
From: "Johann Thorsson" <johann@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:50:51 -0700
I am impressed!!

J

>>>     
> I should mention that I did look up Inukshuk and am waiting to see yours:
> 
> Inukshuk (singular), meaning "likeness of a person" in Inuktitut (the 
> Inuit language) is a stone figure made by the Inuit. The plural is 
> inuksuit. The Inuit make inuksuit in different forms and for different 
> purposes: to show directions to travellers, to warn of impending danger, 
> to mark a place of respect, or to act as helpers in the hunting of 
> caribou. Similar stone figures were made all over the world in ancient 
> times, but the Arctic is one of the few places where they still stand. 
> An inukshuk can be small or large, a single rock, several rocks balanced 
> on each other, round boulders or flat. Inuit tradition forbids the 
> destruction of inuksuit.
> Moose


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