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Sunday, July 3, 2011
Inukshuk
An
Inukshuk
(plural
Inuksuit
) is a cairn made by Innuit people of the Arctic to mark routes through the sometimes featureless polar landscape. I gather they have become a thing in Canada, and are now made throughout the country.
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