I'd have to agree there doesn't seem to be any way to judge what time period this film is supposed to take place in. Probably only the filmmakers or an Inuit historian could tell you that. There is no mention of Europeans in this film so we can perhaps assume it took place before contact was made between the people of Igloolik and Europeans. According to wikipedia, first European contact was in 1822 when British Navy ships HMS Fury and HMS Hecla, under the command of Captain William Edward Parry, wintered in Igloolik. As far as I know, there is no concrete evidence that the vikings ever came West of Newfoundland on any of their pre-Columbian ventures. In "Saga of the Greenlanders" it states that Leif Ericson perhaps set foot on the southeastern shoreline of what is now Baffin Island, but this is still quite a ways from the island which Igloolik is situated on. Therefore, Atanarjuat's incredible naked escape could have taken place as late as 1821 and as early as several thousand years before that. One could probably make a more accurate prediction based on the tools the Inuit used, but unfortunately, I'm not an archaeologist.
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