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Typical markings include vertical lines from the lower lip that extend to beneath the chin. [2] According to tattoo anthropologist Lars Krutak , the width of the lines and the spacing between them were traditionally associated with each of the nine groups of Hän Gwich’in. Girls would be tattooed to identify their group.
[10] [11] Y-shaped markings represent essential tools used during the seal hunt, V-shaped markings on the forehead represent entering womanhood, [13] stripes on the chin represent a woman's first period, chest tattoos are given after childbirth and symbolize motherhood, [13] and markings on the arms and fingers reference to the legend of Sedna ...
Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Russian Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures. They are often defined by their ...
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.
The culture of the Tlingit, an Indigenous people from Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon, is multifaceted, a characteristic of Northwest Coast peoples with access to easily exploited rich resources. In Tlingit culture a heavy emphasis is placed upon family and kinship, and on a rich tradition of oratory.
Alaska Native dancer performing in a kuspuk Man wearing a contemporary kuspuk Senator Lisa Murkowski wearing a kuspuk. A kuspuk (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ s. p ʌ k /) (Central Yupik: qaspeq; [1] [2] Inupiaq: atikłuk [3] [4]) is a hooded overshirt with a large front pocket commonly worn among Alaska Natives. [5]
Icebreakers: Alaska's Most Innovative Artists. International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2001. ISBN 978-0-9670709-0-2. Fair, Susan W. Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity. University of Alaska Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-889963-79-2. Jackinsky, Nadia. "Four Exhibits of Alaska Native Art: Women Artists Breaking Boundaries."
The weeklong Koyukon Athabascan burial ceremony in September was traditional in all ways but one: McCormick died in 1931. Volunteers uncover fate of thousands of Lost Alaskans sent to Oregon ...