I have made a bow tie out of fish skin; a few miniature kameksak/piluguq; leather thimbles; collected moose sinew, cut up pieces fur, leathers and seal skins; and now kameksak. I found most of the list above missing or eaten left over pieces! Dog or dogs had a festive party out of my projects! I am lucky I still have the parkas in-tack! Fingers crossed. Not so lucky the dogs are still roaming in my house and can have festive parties if no humans are around. There is a Yupik story why they have a crimped mouth on the side of their mouths; so they can stop talking. LOL!!!
The dogs won’t tell on each other, they just look at each other – and seemed to hint it’s his fault; no it’s him. As a Yup’ik seamstress I outa un-crimp their mouths with my tools they’ve sniffed and force them to tell me,”Who ate my work!”
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