Yet another mystery surrounding the Thunder House is it's location.
While many of the elders interviewed agreed on the legend of the Thunder House, they weren't sure that the stone house located at NiJq-14 represented the actual Thunder House.
One of the narratives suggest that a shaman once occupied a peculiar stone house, that was not the Thunder House. A recently recorded feature, NiJp-27, may be the shaman's dwelling. It is a temporary shelter hollowed out of a weathered escarpment, near Nalluq.
Missing Skull?The oral narratives recorded speak of a powerful shaman who built the house. They also speak of his skull that had remained in the house for a long time. This skull would move and point in the direction of game for hunting.
One Elder describes how as a young girl she was shown this skull in the Thunder House and that not soon after anthropologists took the skull and other human remains to museums in the south without permission or notification. The narratives also say they damaged NiJ1-14, the Thunder House.
Continue on to explore the stories gathered during this project. These narratives were recorded in Inuktitut and have been translated for this project. Over ten hours of audiotape was recorded during the interview process.
