Norman Hallendy, an Arctic researcher who spent decades studying inuksuit, describes them as stones that act as mnemonics for travelers. He documented eighteen kinds in southern Baffin Island alone, each with a different name and use. An aluqarrik marks a spot to kill caribou, and an aulaqqut is for frightening caribou. Some indicate the depth of snow, the location of a food cache, dangerous ice, a fish spawning spot, or sites for mining pyrites or soapstone. Some hunters built entire fences of inuksuit that would guide the caribou herds toward their spears. Other inuksuit were designed with
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