Pitseolak occasionally drew on the legends she heard in her youth, particularly from her father. The scene in the upper part of the drawing depicts a critical moment in the story of the woman who became a narwhal. To escape her husband’s abuse, the woman jumps off a cliff; she does not die but is instead transformed into a narwhal. Pitseolak depicts the moment of transformation that saves the woman, with her long braid twisting into the tusk of a narwhal.