Students will create their own Inuksuk sculptures, which are figures constructed of stones by the Inuit people to serve as sign posts on the barren tundra, pointing to locations of importance like hunting, fishing, or sacred spots. Students are instructed to sketch out their own Inuksuk design, specifying where they would place it and what location or purpose it would reference.

1. Inuksuk
Sculpture Unit

2. Objective – Students create their own
Inuksuk Sculptures.

3. Materials – Rocks from Sussex
Wood Base – Craft glue

4. What is an Inuskuk Scultpure?

5. Figures Constructed of stones by the
Inuit (Canadian Arctic Tribe)

6. Originally they were sign posts that
would stand out on the barren tundra

7. They might call to a favorite site…
What could that be?

8. Hunting, Fishing or sacred spot

9. Sketch out your Inskuk
Where would you put it?
What would it reference?