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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]
Trapping of furbearing animals (melqulek literally "one with fur, one having fur", derived from melquq and the postbase-lek) provides a large part of the income earned by the Alaska Natives as well as many of the white residents of Southwestern Alaska. The principal animals hunted and trapped for fur are black, polar and brown bear, beaver ...
What clothing they did wear, usually a small jacket, cap, mittens, or socks, was made from the thinnest skins available: fetal or newborn caribou, crow, or marmot. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] The Qikirtamiut of the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay sewed bonnets for their infants from the delicate neck and head skins of eider ducks.
Mukluks are often made with a wrapped sole, so that the seam around the sole is on the top and sides of the boot, not on the bottom edge. This helps avoid leaks, and wear and tear on the seams. Kamiks made for cold, dry winter weather may have fur low down on the outside, and other features that would be a problem when not on dry, powdery snow.
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Apr. 6—Anchorage is edging ever closer to a seasonal snowfall record that's now less than 5 inches away. By Friday, this winter's total snowfall at the National Weather Service offices on Sand ...
Inuit goggles made from caribou antler with caribou sinew for a strap Inuit snow goggles from Alaska. Made from carved wood, 1880–1890 (top) and Caribou antler 1000–1800 (bottom) Snow goggles ( Inuktitut : ilgaak or iggaak , syllabics : ᐃᓪᒑᒃ or ᐃᒡᒑᒃ ; [ 1 ] Central Yupik : nigaugek , nigauget ) are a type of eyewear ...
Lydia T. Black states that Unanagan wooden headgear trace their origins to the Kodiak Island region. [7] The headgear of this area, belonging to the Kodiak Alutiiq, developed through a combination of influences and adaptations from neighbouring Indigenous peoples including the Yup’ik (in the north-west of Alaska), the Tlingit and the Haida (in the north-west coast of Alaska and British ...