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• Chukchi Peninsula Eskimo society Yupik (Providence, Chukchi
Peninsula, Russia);
• Ethnic & cultural public movement Chychetkin Vettav (Anadyr,
Chukchi Peninsula, Russia).
The programme’s guidelines include identification, studying, preservation, and
distribution (paper, digital and word-of-mouth) of content related to:
• fundamentals of the Eskimo and the Chukchi languages, including
professional vocabulary, traditional knowledge, and related industrial
& cultural expertise, customs and rituals;
• cultural landscape structures of sea hunters and reindeer breeders,
including the system of traditional settlement and economic practices
overland and at sea, as well as ethnic toponymics;
• history of the various communities, biographies of their most
prominent members; anthropologic categorization of the Asiatic
Eskimo and Chukchi.
The Programme’s four sections are described below.
Section 1. Working with the elders
Recording narratives and theme interviews, along with videotaping the
narrators and their traditional economic activities. Materials prepared in the
course of that work are preserved in digital form and subsequently published
(see L. Bogoslovskaya, I. Slugin, I. Zagrebin, I Krupnik: Introduction to Sea
Hunting, Heritage Institute Publishers, Anadyr, 2007).
Of particular value are the original drafts and drawings of traditional
hunting gear, primarily harpoon tips and baydaras (open skin boats) and the
desriptions of their production techniques, illustrated with video footage.
These drafts are nowadays used in building baydaras in many communities of
the Providence and the Chukchi regions.
The first ever dictionary of related terminology in the Chaplino Eskimo
language has been released, with Russian equivalents. This is the result
of a collaborative effort by Andrei Ankalin, a sea hunter from the Sireniki
settlement, and the ship designer Sergei Bogoslovsky, who has built – to
a traditional design – a model of an Eskimo baydara-anyapik, a small boat
employed in ice hunting for sealife; it has a wooden skeleton secured by
leather straps, and is upholstered with walrus skin.
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