In 1987, the artists of Pangnirtung established the Uqqurmiut Inuit Artists Association to assist in the creation and marketing of their arts and crafts. From the moment when the Uqqurmiut (the people of the leeside) first opened the doors of their new Craft Gallery in 1991, the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts & Crafts immediately became the primary vehicle for the Inuit artisans of Pangnirtung to exhibit and market their arts and crafts offerings.

Pangnirtung crafts range from warm woolen clothing (hats, scarves mitts, amautik ties, sweaters, wraps, and kamiks), to cozy blankets, to traditional Inuujaaq dolls, to well-crafted jewellery made of indigenous materials (caribou antler, ivory, baleen and bone), to Innianguaq embroidered wall hangings, to small carvings in stone, antler, and other indigenous materials.

Each item sold through the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts & Crafts carries the unique “Three Ptarmigans” tag, your guarantee that your purchase is an authentic and genuine hand-made craft from the Arctic Circle, created by an Inuit artist from the community of Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, within the new Canadian Territory of Nunavut (Our Land).
Visitors are always very welcome, both to the Centre itself and to this website.

 

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This page was last updated on Sunday June 04, 2006