Maria E Merkuratsuk of Nain is a well known knowledge holder, a crafts person, who has been living off the land majority of her life.
Merkuratsuk has been cleaning seal skins for many years and has made numerous mitts and kamet.
She is very thankful to her mother, aunt and grandmother for their teachings of the seal skin.
We will be speaking with Maria E Merkruatsuk later in the PiusituKavut Program to hear more about the steps that is needed to clean a seal skin.