Maupuk

{{short description|Inuit seal hunting technique}}

Maupuk is a seal hunting technique used by the Inuit (formerly known as Eskimo). They assign dogs to search for seal breathing holes and wait for the seals to emerge.{{Cite book|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/724163455|title=Meddelelser om Grønland = Monographs on Greenland|last=Danmark. Kommissionen for Videnskabelige Undersøgelser i Grønland|publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press|year=|isbn=|location=|oclc=724163455|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407153605/https://www.worldcat.org/title/meddelelser-om-grnland-monographs-on-greenland/oclc/724163455 |page=123 |archive-date=2019-04-07}} [https://archive.org/details/meddelelseromgr531917denm/page/122/mode/2up/search/maupuk Alt URL]{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148613/page/n359/mode/2up/search/maupuk|title=Dictionary Of Anthropology|last=Winick|first=Charles|authorlink=Charles Winick|date=1957|page=349}}