page_title: Uvavnuk
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caption_attribution_description: English: illustration of "The Song of Uvavnuk" (The Great Sea Song) by Fiann Paul and Natalie Caroline (low resolution version). Natalie Caroline is an artist and a psychologist. Icelandic polar explorer, Fiann Paul photographed indigenous people of the Arctic. He is also a student of Depth Psychology and an artist. In 2019 Fiann was the captain of a trans-oceanic rowing expedition across the Drake Passage called ‘The Impossible Row’. He recited The Song of Uvavnuk to his team upon arrival to Antarctica. The poem citing was documented by Discovery Channel. The journey and the experience of the arrival served as an impulse to create the artwork.
context_page_description: Uvavnuk was an Inuk woman born in the 19th century, now considered an oral poet. The story of how she became an angakkuq, and the song that came to her, were collected by European explorers of Arctic Canada in the early 1920s. Her shamanistic poem-song, best known as "Earth and the Great Weather". has been anthologised many times.
context_section_description: Uvavnuk was an Inuk woman born in the 19th century, now considered an oral poet. The story of how she became an angakkuq (spiritual healer), and the song that came to her, were collected by European explorers of Arctic Canada in the early 1920s. Her shamanistic poem-song, best known as  "Earth and the Great Weather". has been anthologised many times.
caption: Illustration of The Song of Uvavnuk by Fiann Paul and Natalie Caroline
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