day 9 - Eskimo dancers and bushplanes

July 13th, 2005





Alaska Native Heritage Center, Anchorage




Performer: "My grandma have not seen a tree before her age of 60. She lived in the North. There are no trees in the North".


There are 11 big native groups in Alaska, but they can be grouped into 5 big geographical groups:



Inupiaq eskimos and St. Lawrence Yupik




Yup`ik and Cup'ik




Athabascan




Aleut and Alutiiq




Eyak, Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian



Dena'ina greeting:
Chin'an gu nin yu!
(Thank you, you came here!)




Tlingit tribal house









I closed the door:))




Eyak totempole




Athabascan hunter's hide




Athabascan loghouse




Yup'ik sunglasses:))




Yup'ik men's house




Inupiaq igloo
I always thought that the igloos are only from snow and ice.
But here in Alaska (where there's no permanent snow coverage) they built
igloos from wood and soil. Because the polar bears were around year round..
(The igloo is opened only here in the centre to give people an easy access.)




Entrace of the igloo




Whale ribs




Aleut woman
Show showed us how they hunted




Aleut kayak




Eskimo dance show


Video of a dance about the chewing gum!!! (mpg, 3.9M, 0:22)


Video of a dance about the coke!!! (mpg, 6.4M, 0:37)




Different faces from different groups









Whales were the ultimate resource for the locals




It was defined how they distribute the different part of the whale...




Whale skin and fat mattress:))




Whale hunter camp




Seal buoy




Caribou for dinner on the sledge














Salmon viewing platform in the middle of Anchorage downtown. We saw salmons too!!




Lake Hood is the World's busiest bushplane airport.







We visited the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum on the shore of Lake Hood






















Last photo of the remains of our group




Ted Stevens Anchorage International




I returned our rental car, this was one of the dirtiest.
We drove about 2000 miles, abour 250 of them on unpaved roads.




Alaskan Air planes




Anchorage




Cook-inlet at low-tide




Glacier and glacier lake


That's it. It was really cool!!




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