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1984-RR-129 Cont.

LOGGER'S SHEET

LOGGER: Ilse Akerberg
REEL NUMBER: #3 of 7  
STAGE: Alaska Workshop
DATE: 7/7/84  
PRESENTOR: Susan Levitas/Suzi Jones
GROUP NAME: Rita Blumenstein, Estelle Oozevaseuk & Paul Tuilana
REGION/STYLE: Eskimo games - string games

[[2 columned table]]
| PERFORMER(S) | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
| --- | --- |
| Paul Tuilana - | Inupiaq Eskimo ivory carver/story teller |
| Estelle Oozeraseuk - | St. Lawrence Island Yupik Eskimo |
| Rita Blumenstein - | Yupik Eskimo basketmaker/storyteller |

CONTENTS:
1. Geography of Alaska - peoples.
2. [[strikethrough]] Siber [[/strikethrough]] String game about tern hunting fish.
3. String game weather report w/mountains & clouds.
4. Story of the raven & anemone
5. Estelle predicts weather
6. String game with bear
984-RR-129 7. Puffins came from a woman

Reel #4  1984-RR-130

8. String games - Paul Tuilana - Mountain & the Sun, Bird Hunt, Man hunting w/sled & 1 dog. Swan swimming in pond
9. W/volunteer - magic
10. Questions & answer time:
(a) Stories are passed on by word of mouth
11. (b) Yupik is the native language - St Lawrence Island
(c) Inupiaq is a completely different language   
12. (d) Yupik's thought the white man are spirits -
13. "Yupik" means real person.
(e) Yupik - "gusiq" - name for white people - "not quite done"
(f) Siberian Yupik term - thought white men were spirits
(g) Iñupiaq - term for white person - naluaqmiut
haluaq - white bleached skin - person don't know nothing
-iñupiaq - term for themselves