Tunnittuarjuk is small creatures in Inuit folklore which is said to have huge heads on tiny legs. They haven't got torsos and arms. They generally called Apsat which include two species. One of which is Kajjutarjuk — is large, bold, and powerful, and the other is Tunnittuarjuk — small and timid. Kajjutarjuk means "the ones who hammer" because they roam outside the iglus and bang themselves against everything. Tunnittuarjuk are always females, with genitals under its chin and large breasts on its cheeks (825: p.168). Their legs and faces covered with exquisite tattoos and their name means "beings with magnificent tattoos" (825: p.12).

A tunnittuarjuk is about as tall as an adult's hand. These little beings are very shy and completely harmless.

South Baffin Region. Excerpt from research notes (825: p.168)

In Northwest of Hudson Bay these creatures united under the name Apsat. It is generally believed that they may inhabit iglu left by it's previous owners if they didn't clean it up before leaving:

— Have you ever heard of tunnittuarjuk or kajjutarjuk, beings that only have head and legs?

— We used to be very scared of those. I’ve never seen them but we often heard them. We call them apsat. They usually come in family groups. Some make more noise than others. The sound they make fades as they get further away. We used to place the oil lamp on rocks in the iglu. When we were leaving the iglu for good, we had to take these rocks out because the apsat, which we were very afraid of, might live in them if we left the rocks there. The apsat could create a fire inside an iglu. If I was alone and sleeping on the land — the apsat only stay on land, they never go on the sea ice — I would have to build a second iglu. I would have to make a small little iglu right beside mine and put all my belongings in it. The reason I would hear them in my iglu was because I had built it in a place where there had been an iglu previously that had become inhabited by an apsat. When that happened I would have to move out of there.

— What kind of sound do they make?

— The sound they make is like something banging together inside the ground. When you hear this sound you know it is being made by a family of apsat. It is not really known if they are just rocks or if they are alive. They really do exist. In the Nattilik area there are a lot of stories about them. I think they still exist, but we don’t hear them any more because we live in communities now.

— Would they be present at old tent sites?

— No. It’s only in the winter when you build an iglu that you hear them, never in tents. You only hear them in the winter. We had to make sure we never left rocks inside an iglu not even small rocks. If we spent the winter in an iglu, we had to totally clean it out before we left. We had to remove all the stones and place them quite a distance from the iglu. You had to take everything out, and it had to be brought quite a distance from the iglu. In the old days, they tried to leave the iglu meticulously clean. I once asked my mother, "Why are you cleaning it if we’re not going to use it again?" She said, "Because the tuurngait might live in it, if it is dirty." We had these rules we had to follow. We had to clean the iglu before we could move to another one.

— Do we still have to do this today?

— Oh yes! This has not changed.

Interviewing Inuit Leader Aupilaarjuk (1192: p.65)