2002
Identifying & explaining
Neva Rivers: Ca tam tauna?
(Now what is that?)
Virginia Minock: Qanermiutaq ici-w’.
(You know, a respirator for fire-bath.)
Neva Rivers: Qanermiaq.
(Respirator for fire-bath.)
Virginia Minock: Keggluku tauna pitungatliniat.
(Seems like they bite that.)
Joan Hamilton: Mouthpiece.
John Phillip, Sr.: Puqlamek tua yuuryailkutnguuq.
(It is for breathing in hot air.)
Design differences
John Phillip, Sr.: Camiutaugat-w’ ukut wani-w’ waten ayuqellriaseng? Tamakucinek wangkuta tangeqsaitellrukut tuaten taqumalrianek.
(Where are these from that it has this look? We have never seen one made like that.)
Aron Crowell: Shaktoolik.
Neva Rivers: Qagkumiut. Yeah, Shagtulirmiut. Ungalaqlirmiut tamaa-i.
(People of the North. Yeah, people of Shaktoolik. Around Unalakleet.)
John Phillip, Sr.: Tua-wa ayuqenrilameng pissuutet.
(Well, some things are different.)
Neva Rivers: We all have different ways of making things—in our garments, in our marks, trademarks for the family . . . What we have goes on from our ancestors to the young generations, and what we have remembered, we still go on with.
John Phillip, Sr.: Ayuqenritut caliyarait yuut.
(People have different ways of working.)
Making
John Phillip, Sr.: Avani tang wii cenami nunamteni qiprar canliraarluki qipluki taugaam pililallrukait. Qanermiglallruunga-ll’ wiinga.
(Over there in my village on the coast, they carved and then twisted them. I used to make fire bath respirators too.)
Neva Rivers: Rolled wood shavings up. I’ve seen my papa doing that, when I watched those people in the qaigiq [men’s house]. Some of them cavigteq [carved] shavings like that, and they take them up and roll them up, gently all the way . . . into a ball.
John Phillip, Sr.: Wiinga wani tangvalallrunga canaraarluki takliriaqatat kanavet quyurrluki nenglluki tua-i-ll’ qipqerluki wani qipraarluki nutaan qukaa qill kanavet elliqerluku.
(Now I watched them after they carved. After [the shavings] got long, they gathered them down there, stretched them out, twist them, and finally tie it in the middle and placed it down there.)