Collection Name	S.R. Bernardi Photographs
Identifier	UAF-1959-875-35
Title	Nora.
Description	Woman identified as Nora poses for a photograph . Caption: Eskimos are not Indians, but Mongoloids. Both have all inherent reverence for their ancestors, the Japanese possessing the characteristic a degree stronger than the Eskimos. The Japanese serve fish raw. The Eskimo eats his raw but nature most often serves it to him frozen. Jade is used extensively by both Eskimos and Japanese. Both have the ability to imitate with masked fidelity. We are prone to say "bread is the staff of life." The Eskimo would change it to "oil is the staff of life." The oil of the hair seal the walrus and whale provides for most of the wants of the Eskimo. He uses it to warm his house and dry his boots, to cook his seal meat and if there is no meat to cook he can use the oil for food. In olden times cariboo were plentiful. The meat was dried and the skins used for bedding and clothes. Heated deer suet rendered is eaten with snow and blue-berries it looks like whipped cream and is called koni mi nook. When a person dies a feast is prepared and all friends and relatives come to the home and eat so that the dead one may not be hungry. If two persons fall ill at the same time in the same house one of them must be immediately moved, for should one die his spirit would call to the spirit of the other and he would have to go. Eskimos never cheat each other but think it a virtue to cheat a white man. They most always send another to trade for them as this gives the traders a chance to criticize the goods which would be discourteous if the owner were present. Good bye in Eskimo means "I am sorry to see you go" If you are calling at an Eskimo home you should not leave until your hostess tells you you may go. If a man and his wife go to another village to trade and stay a few days it is a courtesy for the men to trade wives . Don Brand has identified the woman pictured here as Nora Ootenna of the Port Wales area. She married George Otenna and they ran one of the largest reindeer herds in Alaska. S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk whaling album.
Creator	Bernardi, Suzanne Rognon
Subject.TGM	Women Indigenous peoples
Subject.Local	Alaska Natives--Northern Alaska--Inupiaq
Region	Northern Alaska
Time Period	1896 to 1913
Date	1905?
Type	Image (Portrait photographs)
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
Holding Institution	Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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