Arts & Culture

Aug 20 2018
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Kunniak’s original Salt and Spice mixture next to a plate of bowhead whale. She now carries 11 different flavors, including “Black Lava” and “Ghost Blend.” (Photo by Erin McKinstry/Alaska Public Media)

Kunniak’s Spices brings new flavors to Native dishes

By | 2 Alaska, Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Food, Subsistence

The company’s owner, Kunniak Hopson, moved to Chugiak 11 years ago from Utqiaġvik, which she calls Barrow. When she was growing up, her family always put McCormick’s Salt ‘n Spice on maktak, which is frozen whale blubber and skin. But McCormick’s stopped making it and she had to find an alternative.

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Aug 16 2018
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Pauline Beebe was among the first to enter the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center on Saturday, August 11, 2018, in Quinhagak. (Photo by Katie Basile/KYUK)

Nunalleq Culture And Archaeology Center opens in Quinhagak

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Alaska Native Government & Policy, Arts & Culture, History, Southwest

Quinhagak’s new museum is home to 60,000 artifacts, the largest collection of pre-contact Yup’ik artifacts in the world. The opening was the culmination of nine years of back-breaking work, and the result of a unique partnership between Quinhagak’s village corporation and archaeologists.

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Aug 06 2018
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Dannielle Carbone points out a semiprecious stone to explain to customers what they are and where they come from. She set up shop this June at her boat in Dillingham's PAF boatyard. (Photo by Austin Fast/KDLG)

Out-of-state fishermen find their second family in Bristol Bay

By | Arts & Culture, Community, Fisheries, Southwest

Most of the year, Dillingham’s boatyards are peaceful parking lots. They transform entirely for just a couple short weeks before the sockeye salmon run in early June and at the end of the season in late July. Fishermen flood into Bristol Bay from around the globe, creating a diverse itinerant community complete with vendors hawking their wares.

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Aug 03 2018
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At the dig site, doctoral student Jonathan Lim takes a short break. Lim, who is from Malaysia, is one of many archaeologists from around the world who worked in Nunalleq this summer. (Photo by Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK)

Largest shipment of Yup’ik artifacts in the world arrives in Quinhagak

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Community, History, Southwest

The world’s largest collection of Yup’ik artifacts finally has arrived home in Quinhagak on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast. After shipping delays in Europe, the Nunalleq artifacts have returned in time for the community’s museum opening.

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