New York student explores relationship between hunter, seal through Yup’ik objects

A woman who studies museum collections made a trip to Bethel from New York City this March, seeking to learn more about things she had been looking at in back rooms and exhibition halls on the East Coast, according to a story published by KYUK Public Media. What these things said about the people who made them and their relationship to seals brought her to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
As she read through the records of 19th century expeditions to the delta and examined the “material culture,