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• 07-03-2008

Listen to this audio post [mp3]: 07-03-2008

In this installment, Eli describes Cape Dorset hunting implements the group has found in the archaeological site and the new activities he is trying, including swimming in the Arctic Ocean and tasting muktuk (narwhal skin and blubber).

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