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 2 - 345, passing under 2f, hooks down 2n; 3 picks up 1f and presses against the side of 2 to trap the 1f-3n string.