CanadaCanadaThe Culture

• Influenced by British, French, and Aboriginal cultures

and traditions • ,,multiculturalism“

More about Eskimos…

Food Preparation

• Meat, fat and fish • Vegetables is scarce • Scrape on food• Hunting and fishing• Hunger and even starvation • Meat was stored in shallow

cache pits

Scarce = vzácný, scrape = šetřit, starvation = vyhladovění, stored = uskladněný, shallow chache pits = malý úkryt v podobě jámy

Shelter (igloo)

• Tent make of animal skins (walrus)• Snow houses:

Small snow houses with short tunnel entrances

Larger snow houses

• Sometimes, two large snow houses are joined together by tunnels

Clothing and Crafts

• Boots called mukluks

• Trousers and hooded jackets called parkas

• Caribou fawn skin (sobí přítulná kůže)

• Sealskin (tulení kůže), waterproof but stiff

• Decorated tools (nářadí) and objects for everyday use

• Bone, ivory (slonovina), wood and a soft stone called soapstone