qayaq

Thus, while Thule Culture lasted only the few centuries that this extreme warm period allowed large whales passage into most of the Canadian Arctic, many of the technologies that the Qallunaat (non-Inuit) world associates with Inuit – dog traction, the umiaq and qayaq, and large marine mammal hunting – are Thule legacies.

Climate change impacts on Canadian Inuit in Nunavut 2009

He rode in the niche in the qayaq between Taliriktug and Silna.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Taliriktug, Silna, and their two children chose to travel — as did four of the hunters — in their long double qayaq, but Asiajuk was too old and had too much dignity to paddle a qayaq anymore.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

There were harpoons on the kamatik but they weren't his — he and Silence had left theirs with their qayaq a week ago — and he didn't want to ask to borrow one just to go into the ship with it.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Although Asiajuk generously offered to let Silna and her children ride in his now-crowded umiak, she string-messaged her preference for the qayaq, Taliriktug knew that his wife would never want any child of hers — certainly not Kanneyuk, the two-month-old — to be so close to the vicious dogs in such a tight space.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007