Nungali Posted Friday at 10:49 PM (edited) 11 hours ago, old3bob said: and here I was thinking you were writing about an articulated lorry .... or had regressed to 1950 ( sic joke .... and another one ..... not a sick joke , but 'spelling incorrect joke ) anyways; here is a story, some explorer dude ( name cant remember - someone looking to find the NW passage I think ) had a smart idea ; before I go on the big trip, do a small one, meet the locals and learn how to survive up there . Good move ! What if we get shipwrecked and have to survive in the ice and snow ? No problems the locals say, we will show you, so they go out on a trek , show him how to cut snow blocks , make an igloo , spread their skins and furs out , with smooth skins facing the inside . The group of men strip off naked , smear each other with walrus fat and all get into the giant sleeping bag together . American dude is .... Come on ... get in ... we all keep each other warm . Uh - arrr . You can sleep in the middle ! Uh -arrrmmmm 'Ill just sleep in the corner over here .'' ''But you will freeze !'' Dude spent the night in the corner with several sets of cloths on freezing his arse off ! I saw another one ; woman in igloo making dinner . She got a chunk of whale blubber and started chopping and chopping it until it was a near liquid mess . My God! That is dinner ? No, it wasnt . She put it in a little tray and then got a strip of hide and cut it * cross ways, half way through into a sort of fringe . She rubbed blubber on it and twisted each bit of fringe into a point and then set the whole strip into the front of the tray, inside between the tray wall and the blubber ... so a line of little tufts was across the front . What in earth is she doing ? Then she got a flint and made a spark at it . The end tuft caught alight and the flame spread along lighting all of them in a perfectly formed line of little even flames , just like a good gas jet does . She cooked over that and then it was left as a heater . Wow ! * Oh , and the knife ? I have seen some beautiful ancient examples that I mistook for 'modern' cutlery . How they do that ? Handle walrus ivory and the metal ? They had a huge meteorite that they used ..... for many many generations ..... until the USA stole it from them ! '' The "Cape York meteorite," or "Innaanganeq," was a significant mass of meteoric iron that fell in Greenland, with large fragments later acquired by the United States and moved to the American Museum of Natural History for display and study, a process that involved the controversial exploitation of the indigenous Inughuit people and the collection of human remains alongside the celestial rock '' .... and now in its 'rightful place' and it isnt the only case ! https://drpetermartin.wordpress.com/2022/06/23/confronting-the-colonial-histories-of-the-innaanganeq-meteorite/ . Edited Friday at 10:53 PM by Nungali 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
