As Jean Blodgett suggests in Grasp Tight the Old Ways (op. cited.) the source of Kiakshuk’s imagery was due, in large part, to his intimate knowledge of the land and traditional way of living. Employing his intimate knowledge of hunting, and, perhaps, his own personal narrative, in Three Bear Hunters, Kiakshuk presents a riveting and slightly comical scene. Here, three men approach a rather ferocious and sawtoothed polar bear. The pose of each figure along downward zig-zagging line is more unstable than the last, with the Inuk at the bottom of the sheet pictured running, terror-struck, in the opposite direction.