A traveling exhibit of Yup'ik culture opened in Bethel, Alaska, this month.
"Yuungnaqpiallerput -- The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival" features 80 artifacts depicting Yup'ik life, past and present. A number of the items are on loan from museums around the world that elders started visiting in hopes of reconnecting with their culture.
"They really wanted the exhibit to showcase our way of life, the way that we live today and in the past," Ann Rearden of Napakiak, a translatr with the Calista Elders Council, told the Associated Press.
From Bethel, the exhibit will head to the Anchorage Museum, the state museum in Juneau and then the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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