The stone statue found in the Test For Echo album art is an "Inukashuk" (also spelled as "Inukshuk"), an Inuit word which translates as "taking the place of a man" (an extension of "inuk", or human being). Inukshuk serve as Inuit signposts in the Canadian Arctic, and mark the highest point of land to aid in navigation or to assist in hunting, while some serve as sight lines to important and powerful places beyond the horizon. Some inuksuit (singular) have been standing for centuries, most likely longer; the Inuit, who have lived in Nunatsiaq (the beautiful land) for over 4000 years it's believed that these figures were built at the time of their earliest ancestors.

An inukshuk is also shown on the flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, established in 1999, and is also found on the flag of the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Canada. Click here for more information and images of inuksuit.

"I was up in Yellowknife last June on a motorcycle trip across the country, and there's one of those Inukashuk above the town overlooking it, and I was quite taken with it. I bought a postcard almost exactly the image you see on the cover ... I just came back with this postcard and I thought of 'test for echo.' I thought that's exactly what these men mean when you're out in the wilderness ... when you've been hiking for a few days and you come across one of these things, it's such an affirmation that there's life out there. Again the same thing: it's an echo ... and that's the feeling a traveler in the Arctic would get, that it was a sign of life. The same with the satellite dishes. I was kind of referring to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the test for echo going out that way." - Neil Peart, Jam! Showbiz, Oct. 16, 1996.