[4][5] Because these materials were not abundant in the Canadian Arctic, instead Inuit communities began to collect animal bones and carcasses to be shipped down to industrial cities and ports for use in the ongoing munitions drive.
[4] One centre of the bone and carcass collection efforts was a springtime hunting camp on an island called Qaipsunik, near Igloolik in today's Nunavut.
[2] The bags were packaged by older members of the community, and then existing Hudson's Bay Company shipping routes were used[2] to transport the bags to southern Canadian ports in cities like Montreal and Halifax where the materials were processed into ammunition, glue for aircraft, or fertilizer for the Canadian war effort.
[6] In 2012, Attagutsiak received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal,[7] which is awarded "to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians".
Parks Canada credited Attagutsiak with being "instrumental in helping establish the Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team - Medical Centre in Ottawa" in her capacity as a midwife.