Bethel

Alaska Airlines has specific, Alaskan-themed designs on their planes. I think this on is called "Spirit of Seattle." (A 2008 era design commemorating, weirdly enough, Eskimos and Alaska Airlines long term partnership with Boeing. Because apparently they go together. Somehow.)



Heading out from Anchorage to Bethel. The tundra looks so beautiful.


Amazing details on these beautiful dolls.



Looking at a row of these pretty dioramas, it took me a minute to realize that the woman was actually in the process of spearing a seal. :)



Yupik masks are incredibly complex and beautiful.



This is a diorama of dancers and singers with the large, thin drums played here.



An amazing fish skin parka used for rainwear...I can't even imagine the painstaking work of cleaning the skins and then gently but strongly piecing them together...such a fundamentally genius concept.



Story knives...like the Chinese Nü Shu, this was a female-only form of literature...young girls were taught how to be women by the stories their elder female relatives would draw into the sand/dirt with these knives...a beautiful thing.



Gorgeous.


This display shows the composition of the tundra, which was good to know because I was trying to figure out why the ground was like a giant wet sponge.