Top image: Various tools, utensils and other artifacts that were recovered after the Typhoon Halong scattered them from a significant Yup'ik archaeological site, known as the Nunalleq site, in ...

The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea.

Introduction: "Everything that is made causes us to remember" -- The moral foundations of Yup'ik science -- Qasgimi (in the Qasgi) -- Muraliuryaraq, enliuryaraq, teggalquliuryaraq-llu (working with ...

A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide in the western ...

When it was made: These masks date to at least the 16th century; the one photographed above dates to 1885. The Yup'ik people, whose ancestors arrived in southwestern Alaska around 800 years ago, are ...

Title and imprint from videocassette label. Kit is not complete; missing posters. Education packet for the exhibit, "Agayuliyararput: Our way of making prayer, the living tradition of Yup'ik masks," ...

The site home to a substantial collection of Yup'ik artifacts from the period before the Indigenous community made contact with European outsiders in the 19th century.

The Orthodox Christian tradition is strong in the tiny village of Kwethluk, Alaska. It recently welcomed clergy and pilgrims from around the world to canonize a local midwife and healer as a saint. We ...