The Inuit cultural matrix reloaded (fwd link)

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The Inuit cultural matrix reloaded

Calgary academics make a 3-D virtual-reality replica of a traditional hut,
offering elders a new way to pass on their fading heritage

DAWN WALTON
>From Friday's Globe and Mail
February 15, 2008 at 4:51 AM EST

CALGARY — Donald Uluadluak ducks as the life-size images of ancient Inuit huts
and a whale skeleton, which was once used as building material in the North,
seem to float around him.

The 75-year-old artist and elder adviser from Nunavut says he wants to reach out
and touch the lifelike three-dimensional objects as he sits wearing special
glasses in this darkened virtual-reality room at the University of Calgary.

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