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Most recently posted photos from top to bottom. If you think you know any unidentified people or places in the photos please send an email to info@nunivak.org , and we'll make corrections.

Nuratar, Andrew (Anculu) Noatak poses with a mask that he made in 1987. The mask depicts the half-man half-animal spirit known as Irci. Andrew created the mask from driftwood and gull feathers and painted it with traditional blue and red pigments obtained from Nelson Island. [R. Drozda photo, posted October 15, 2007]

Nuniwarmiut School High School Seniors Graduation, May 11, 2007.
Graduates (from left to right) Angagar (Melanie), Panigarkar (Stephanie), and Pantungan (Sara).

These are our first graduates since initiation of No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB, by the federal government. Nuniwarmiut Schools continue to
maintain Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) level at Zero (0), which is the goal for all schools under the new education legislation.

Congratulation to the graduates and Nuniwarmiut School where education is of highest standards. [NPT photo, posted May 21, 2007]

Nuniwarmiut High School graduating seniors class trip to Washington D.C. March 2007

From left to right: Angagar (Melanie), Pantungan (Sara), Nakaar (Howard), Caniiral^zria (Dale) and Panigarkar (Stephanie) at the World War II memorial.

The students and chaperones made the trip to visit the nation's capitol and to observe Nunivak Island collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Photographer Nussaalar (Muriel) not shown.
[NPT photo, posted May 14, 2007]

Nuniwarmiut Kassiyutait Dancers pose prior to their performance on October 26th at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Anchorage. This was the third time the group has performed at AFN. [NPT photo, posted November 1, 2006]

Unidentified man, possibly the father of Harry Wesley, on beach at Mekoryuk, summer 1956. Man is cutting threads on a long bolt. Note kayak on rack in background. The original photograph, a 35 mm color transparancy was taken by the anthropologist Margaret Lantis. [photo: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Archives, Margaret Lantis Collection posted July 17, 2006]

USF&WS Personnel with a haul of Pacific cod taken in the waters off of Nunivak Island July 4, 1949. Click on image for larger view and to read more about this photo and Pacific cod at Nunivak. [E. Dietrich photo, posted July 17, 2006]

Mekoryuk street scene. Qiawigar, Kay Hendrickson and child in sled, circa 1940. [M. Lantis photo, posted 2-15-2006]

Icaran'in, Ida Wesley, following an interview about Nuniwar traditional atgiiyar (Pacific Cod) fishing. December 9, 2005 at Mekoryuk. [R. Drozda photo]
[R. Drozda photo. Posted 1-16-2006]

Apurin, Susie Shavings, following an interview about Nuniwar traditional atgiiyar (Pacific Cod) fishing. December 8, 2005 at Mekoryuk.
[R. Drozda photo. Posted 12-12-2005]

Qayarkil^zngur, ca. 1923 (?)
[Photo from University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Rasmuson Library Archives, L.J. Palmer Collection] [Posted 08-19-2005]

Excelia at fishcamp.
[Photo from Jeannie Richard's collection, courtesy of Eva (David) Malvich] (More photos from Eva) [Posted 05-20-2005]

Nunivak Musk Oxen in Defensive Formation. No date. (Courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Digital Library System)[Posted 02-18-2005]

Mekoryuk Residents gathered around dogsled. Man may be Tutqir. 1956.
(Courtesy of Margaret Lantis, photographer). [This photograph has been cropped, full image available by clicking on picture. Posted 01-07-2005]

	Joe Akquar with large walrus hide (?) drum. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1927 at Nunivak Island. Original Caption: "The drummer-- Nunivak. Eskimo man, wearing fur parka, with a large hand-held drum, similiar in appearance to a tambourine, made of walrus stomach or bladder. " (Photographer Edward S. Curtis, courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress). [posted 11-13-2004]

	Original Caption: "Nunivak Children 1949" (Photographer unidentifed, courtesy of Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge) [posted 10-22-2004]

	"Eskimo (Nuniwarmiut) Women, 1927" (Front) Panigarkar; Naqugut'allngur (Lena Wesley); (Back) Aggsirer (Excelia Kolerok), Agyaqer. (Photo by E.S. Curtis, courtesy of Jim Graybill. NPT Acc. ECU097) [posted 10-04-2004]

	Original Caption: "Eskimo in kayak. Nunivak Island." (Photo by E.P. Hadden, courtesy of Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge) [posted 09-21-2004]
	Caroline Ivanoff , maybe at Mekoryuk in mid to late 1960s. (Photo: USF&WS) [posted 09-09-2004] [Thanks to Marian Shavings for identifying her niece, 09-10-04].

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