Earrings

Collected by George Byron Gordon from the Yup'ik people of Mamtrelich, a small village near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska. Eskimo (Inuit) women traditionally wore dangling earrings that were made of carved bone or ivory.

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1  2  3  4  5  6  all © 2010 ISFA. All rights reserved.		Step 1 - Place loop on 1 and 5; R2 hooks L palmar string to the right, rotating away and up as it returns; L2, from below, removes the L5 loop; R5 releases its loop; extend. You have what Jenness calls Opening B.