Headdress
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
An Great Idea with Headdresses while Learning
Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yupik Eskimo Examples By Jerry Lipka (1999) is an great book giving examples, while learning the different groups of Eskimos and Whites working in the same levels, which Yupik drumming and singing got involved as learning. Therefore, they the students made their own headdresses for the use of the Yupik patters in based mathematics. Ina White and Esther Ilutsik, two ciulistet teachers involved in this, they introduce the unit by connecting the human heartbeat to patterns and the Yupik drum's and then began to beat out the rhythm. This give more connections to their mathematic learning.
Lipka,J. (1999). Transforming the Cultures of Schools: Yupik Eskimo Examples, pg 161 Retrieved November 24, 2010.
Friday, November 19, 2010
My Family's Headdress
The headdresses shown are made from my Great-Aunt Dora Moore. She have made headdresses for years for numerous relatives for their first-dance performance in cultures Potlatches. In 2008 my family and I celebrated the appreciation of the substances lifestyle hunting in the annual Potlatches in the near village, Kotlik, Alaska.
An Idea of a Use of the Headdress
In Yupik Cultures dances, the drummers sing and tell stories with the movements of their arms, bodies and sometimes
facial expressions, which shows in the video, "Yupik Seal Dance" the sing is by John Pingayak of Chevak, Ak. Each dance song
has their own meaning to it, like this one it express the act of hunting for and retrieving a seal they have shot. Also, as they perform
it shows great appreciation of what the land provides such as food, homes, and their people.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
How The Design Is Made
Over the years cultures have made some changes of the headdresses, but my object I gained interests was an old-fashion style, which is made out of reindeer or caribou fur and a piece of seal skin for the upper part of the headdress. As for the modern days many see very talented bead work onto the headdress to gain more donation to it.
An Image of the Old-Fashion Headdress
An Image of the Old-Fashion Headdress
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Beaded Eskimo Dance Headdress |
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