She’s an anthropologist who has documented Yup’ik life in Western Alaska for decades. The parka is roughly 2 feet long, just big enough to fit a 9-pound baby.

Yup'ik Dancers from Alaska Performs Published:10/8/2005 10/8/2005 <p>The Kicaput Singers and Dancers of Alaska performed on the Fleming Law Building's north lawn from noon to 1pm, sponsored by the ...

Paul John and more than a dozen other Yup'ik people traveled thousands of miles for the opening of the exhibit, "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and ...

At the American Indian museum is a Yupik child’s parka, made from soft bird skin lined with feathers—a gorgeous piece of craft. One day Frank Andrew, a tribal elder, examined it with ...

The paint on the two masks in the Menil Collection's "Microcosmos" show faded years ago. So did the rays of long-quilled feathers protruding from their tops. They're an odd couple, each depicting ...

Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan worked with Yup’ik elders to create “They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground,” a collection of essays that express the belief that all animals have minds ...

At the Dillingham Middle School, President Obama was treated to a youth cultural dance performance. The gradeschool-aged children performed four Yup'ik dances.

Yup'ik masks vary dramatically in size and shape, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray wrote in her 1967 book "Eskimo Masks: Art and Ceremony," with some as small as 6 inches (15 centimeters) and ...

I'm Siberian Yupik and I'm from Gambell on St. Lawrence Island It's right between Nome and Russia. My mom did tell me that my great, great grandma crocheted, ...

(Wood, feathers, and pigment. 17 1â 2 x 9 1â 2 x 6 &#8540; inches and 20 x 14 x 10 inches. ... with a pair of long-separated Yup'ik masks that he has reunited.