Dried Fish-Alutiiq Word of the Week-September 9th
Tamuuq—Dry Fish Tamuuq kinertaa.—The fish is dry. Catching salmon is only the first step in a long process of preserving summer’s abundance for winter use. The real work begins once the fish are in the net. In the past, Alutiiq women used slate knifes, known as ulus, to clean and split fish, which they hung […]