To start reading from the beginning, go to May 11, 2008. Jimmy was back and Captain K (Kiyukuk), the reindeer herder, was scheduled to leave. For days the Captain sat on the living room varnished plywood floor scraping reindeer leggings. Leggings are, naturally, fur skinned from the legs of reindeer. Kiyukuk placed the 14″-ish X [...]
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My Eskimo Family 73 (continued from April 6)
Posted in My Eskimo Family, tagged Golovin, mukluks, reindeer on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My Eskimo Family 70 (continued from February 23)
Posted in My Eskimo Family, tagged needlepoint, reindeer, skinning, slaughter on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To start reading from the beginning, go to May 11, 2008. I sat one morning behind the store counter working on an intricate rose pattern needlepoint I’d ordered through a catalog. A gaze out the window across the frozen bay broke my concentration In the white distance I saw a cloud of snow rolling over [...]
