Rattle-Alutiiq Word of the Week-January 30th
KALLA’UN/KALLA’UTAQ – RATTLE KALLA’ALEGET AGNGUAQAMENG KALLA’UTAT ATURTAAKAIT. – SHAMANS USE THE RATTLES WHEN THEY DANCE. The puffin beak rattle is one of two types of Alutiiq rattles. This instrument is made from a set of two to five nested, wooden hoops. Pictures of ancestral rattles show that artists lashed or pegged these hoops to a […]