While researching for a story centered around traditional whaling techniques of the Iñupiat tribe I began to wonder what would make them laugh. What types of things might have been considered funny to indigenous people in the Arctic 100, 200, 300 years ago?

Would they have relied on physical comedy? Or stories with life lessons? What types of subjects might they joke about?

I imagine maybe something like this;

A boy and his father and his uncle are out in their Umiak hunting for bowhead, the father and uncle are focused on the sea, harpoons held at the ready, but the boy is watching a flock of seagulls flying above them. his uncle tells him,

a true hunter keeps his eyes on the sea, not in the sky.

The father, quick to defend his son, tells the uncle

a true hunter watches all spirits of nature.

He says,

If the hunter does not watch for the seal to offer him it's spirit, he returns with shame in his belly and no meat. If the hunter does not watch for the walrus to offer him it's spirit, he returns with shame in his belly and no meat.

the uncle interrupts with a smug look,

and what will the hunter return with if he doesn't watch for the seagulls offering?

The father says,

A head full of seagull shit

Obviously to translate something complex like this, there's too much modern phrasing and verb modifiers that would most likely not have existed in earlier iterations of Inuit, at least to my limited understanding.

Any insight into something funny or amusing an Inuit would say or do 300 years ago?