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Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska
Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or birdskin garments. Although fewer fancy parkas are sewn today, many people...
ISBN: 9780295751740
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Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer
Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell
Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the...
ISBN: 9780295975092
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Ciuliamta Akluit / Things of Our Ancestors
Yup'ik Elders Explore the Jacobsen Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
In the 1880s, the Norwegian-born traveler Johan Adrian Jacobsen spent a year in Alaska and amassed an unprecedented collection of Yup'ik material culture that eventually made its way to Germany’s most prominent ethnographic museum. More...
ISBN: 9780295984711
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