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Email: ahadlari@ntilands.com
Attima is an Inuit drum dancer who lives with his family
in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. He has been actively drumming
since his early teen years and attributes his ability
to his teachers, Hadlari, (his father) and Quaquqtuuq.
Attima drums in the Natttilingmiut style accompanied
by one or more chant singers. Over the years he has
performed with his drum to audiences across the world,
often explaining the significance and traditional uses
of the chants and the dance. Other times Attima demonstrates
such traditional skills as the use of the seal skin
whip or Inuit games.
Attima was born out on the land between Taloyoak
and Kugaaruk and raised in tents and igloos until
his family moved into the settlement of Taloyoak when
he was a teenager. He started hunting on his own,
by dog team, at an early age. He is proud to say that
if he had to, he could survive out on the tundra still
today.
Some of his performances include:
• Expo 86, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Folk on the Rocks, Yellowknife , N.W.T., 1982-
present
• Arctic Winter Games, various locations, until
present
• Yokohama Museum Art Gallery opening, Japan,
1992
• Traditional World Fair, Mexico, 1992
• Oceanographic Museum opening, Paris, 1993
• Private audience to Prince Rainer, Monaco,
1993
• Royal Visits to Nunavut by Queen Elizabeth
and the Duke of Edinburgh, 1994, 2000
• Verona, Italy 1995
• CNE, Toronto, Ontario, 1995
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