Joe Tanape

H97-235-02

Joe Tanape interviewed by Pricilla Russell and Ralph Johnson.

Only first section is in English, the rest is in Sugcestun.

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1) Personal history.

English Bay/ 1914/ Nuka Island/ Nuka Bay -- winter/ Aleut/ food/ bear/ moose/ meat|

2) Paying for land/ hunting seal, bear, and porcupine/ getting clams/ mussels/ tomcod/ smoking seal|

3) People knew the land and food/ they didn't have to pay for food/ they didn't know what money was/ they never got sick/ he came over the land|

4) Wife Aqasa and Old man Qeluisa/ the snow gets deep/ Agua came in winter time/ New Year|

5) New Year and the Old Ladies and months of the New Year/ tear off the masks at 12:00 midnight/ singing church song -- God Grant You Many Years|

6) End of the New Year ball/ what they do at midnight|

7) How they put food away|

8) New Year/ ripping off the masks|

9) Singing a song of an old man and lady/ talking about the waltz after New Year's ball|

10) Singing a song learned from the Kodiak people/ another song|

11) Making a song of the old man and old lady laying on grass floor or rock|

12) Masking/ sings a song about the New Year coming/ ripping off the masks at midnight/ what happens if you don't rip them|

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14) Same as section 12

15) What the New Year used to be like before now/ talks about New Year play|

16) Continuation of section 15

17) Ending of New Year play

18) Talks about New and Old Year/ masking on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd nights/ starring|

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20) Masking/ how they never let the children go masking|

21) Meaning of masking/ talks about porcupine/ seal skin|

22) Talks of the wolves/ brown bears/ moose|

23) Groundhogs/ how to prepare by hanging and smoking/ the peoples different ancestry in Nanwalek|

24) Seal skin boat

25) Clothing of groundhog and seal skin