#malikkaat

[nunagijavut]

Arctic Thrift/Sea Pink/“Carnation”

According to Common Plants of Nunavut by Carolyn Mallory and Susan Aiken, the Inuktitut name for the light pink flowers is “Carnation”, it gained that name because after the qallunat (southerners- but more specifically refers to white people, actually translates to basically “people with good eyebrows”) arrived with Carnation brand evaporated milk. The drawing of the flower on the can was thought to resembled this flower.

The white flowers behind the Carnations is Malikkaat (the name for them in Pangnirtung)/Isuqtannguat (the name for them in Kingait)/ Isurramuat or Mountain Avens.

Then two of the flowers in the forfront are Alpine Milk-Vetch (no Inuktitut name given, it’s the purple one on the right), and the one on the left is a Paunnat/Dwarf Fireweed that has not bloomed yet.

[fyeahindigenousfashion]

sealskin boots, Karliin Aariak for Malikkaat

Karliin spent her childhood years in the North Baffin communities of Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet where she became strongly grounded in her Inuktitut language and culture. Karliin is a young mother who is committed to passing on her first language, Inuktitut and culture to her daughter. She enjoys learning Inuit traditional concepts and values and incorporating them into contemporary living. Her interests have brought her experience in journalism, broadcasting, film, and design which she continues to enjoy. Karliin also manages and operates Malikkaat Ltd. a boutique specializing in Inuit traditional and contemporary tools along with crafts, carvings, jewelry and garments all authentic to the people of the arctic.