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what are you, alive?

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

@GbytheBook @FredTaming i thought her arm was pencil-thin for a moment T_T

[David Reamer @ANC_Historian]

1877 Inupiaq man on the Seward Peninsula. Via Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. #alaskahistory #alaska

[Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐝𐐲𐑄𐐲𐑉𐑌-𐐺𐐫𐑉𐑌) @neilalexanderw1]

Check out this new article on the earliest scholarly materials for Northern Greenlandic. It's a tragic story--be warned: https://t.co/E5OTJXng1v

[David Reamer @ANC_Historian]

Yupik devilchaser from Sivuqaq (St. Lawrence Island). Made from antler & used to treat sick and nightmares. Also called bullroarers, as they are typically attached to a cord and swung in circles to make sound. Via Smithsonian. #alaskahistory #alaska

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

i have another twenty-five scans i took today from this book plus eight from another. currently intending to post them on my tumblr blog but if anyone's interested let me know & i'll queue them up here too

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

J. Leslie Boffa, illustration for Iḷiappaurak Tupiksraġiaqtuak Isiŋnamun / The Two Orphans That Went to Jade Mountain from Unipchaaŋich Imaġluktuġmiut / Stories of the Black River People by Nasruk / Robert Cleveland, 1980

[David Reamer @ANC_Historian]

Circa 1820 Unangan (Aleut) waterproof gutskin cape/overcoat, an indalux (cape in Unangam Tunuu) or shaulong (adopted from Russian). Made of sea lion intestines. Via Peabody Essex Museum. Does it feel right for this to be in Massachusetts? #alaskahistory #alaska

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

i'll consider my swedish pronunciation adequate when i can say "härröra" & be understood

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

@nausicaamaxxing from my understanding the primary barrier to cross-inuit interintelligibility is lexical replacement due to name avoidance taboos (particularly notable with tunumiisut)

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

@rubeishbin called around today & couldn't find anywhere with a cradle scanner but upon discussion with my mother (a librarian) found out that i could partially disassemble her library's flatbed scanner to avoid opening the books too far. so problem solved & tomorrow's project decided upon!

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

do any of you know how to get ok-quality scans out of books? i'd like to digitize some illustrations from some old, fragile books i own. will a big city library have scanners i can use without wrecking the binding or something like that?

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

@miffypost1ng fairbanks is a beautiful place

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

@DeliriousWit @sdrx902 yes!

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

@DeliriousWit @sdrx902 AP style allows you to write Milwaukee without the ", Wisconsin" but not Madison that way

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

@JakobIngvardsen inuit (& related) languages are a joy to study

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

(from Unipchaaŋich Imaġluktuġmiut by Nasruk / Robert Cleveland)

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

new frontiers in the pluralization of "shaman" being opened up for me

[íllen @sk0okum]

Secwepemctsín leptsék /ləpcɛ́k/ "pancake", from "flapjack" or "slapjack" is an interesting hyperforeignism, showing influence from earlier French borrowing layers

[yuvgeq @matnequa]

@number_pizza111 you run into them all the time reading about alaska natives

[David Reamer @ANC_Historian]

Four small Sumio Kawakami (1895-1972) prints of Alaska. Born in Yokohama, he spent part of 1917 to 1918 working in America and Canada, including at an Alaska cannery. More on him in my obscure Alaska history summer reading list posting later today. #alaskahistory #alaska