Caption? "Have an Ordinary Day..."
Posted on 01/18/2008 9:37:44 AM PST by Froufrou
Four decades after it was abandoned, King Island holds an almost mystical pull for former inhabitants and their descendants, its crumbling homes still perched on stilts, clinging to the steep, rocky terrain.
Until recently, little else remained of the island, an Inupiat Eskimo village, except for traditions, memories and artifacts scattered at museums around the nation.
Then came word from a stranger nearly 2,000 miles away who said she possessed an ancient mask a relative brought back from Alaska more than a century ago.
On the back of the relic was a faint inscription: "Taken from a medicine man's grave on King Island."
The woman from northwest Washington e-mailed Charlene Saclamana, tribal coordinator with the King Island Native Community based in Nome, a city 80 miles southeast of the tiny Bering Sea island, where many of its residents relocated.
Marilyn Lewis said she wanted to return the wooden mask to its rightful owners.
Two weeks later, she traveled to Alaska to deliver the artifact, which is now on display at the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome, named after the museum's late founder, a gold rush pioneer.
The island, home to about 200 people a century ago, was abandoned for various reasons.
Many of the men were drafted during World War II and didn't return. Tuberculosis killed some people and hospitalized others. Fewer residents returned from traditional summer camping grounds near Nome, where there were jobs and doctors.
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On the back of the relic was a faint inscription: “Made in China”
"Take the mask back, it's making me sad!"
ROTFLMAO! [keyboard shortcircuited when coffee sprang from nose...]
There’s a wonderful movie about this happening in Ireland during WWII. Many people were removed from the western islands for security reasons. In this movie they go back to fish and eventually two half grown children go back and rebuild the house and discovery a wild child who was believed lost at sea during the evacuation. I wish I could remember the name of the movie.
Sounds hilarious.
Sounds very interesting, I would love to see it.
Thump yourself in the head and try to remember the name! :^)
Bad day at the office?
Or maybe a long day at the office. He was probably cleanshaven, originally...
Maybe there is a need out there for a Google type search engines for movies (and maybe TV shows) where you only need enter whatever few details of the show and it scans using your parameters.
If there already was such a system in place, I would have already worn it out by now.
* I'm secretly hoping that someone will tell me there already is such a website....and that would make my day.
the internet movie database
www.imdb.com
You could have let me touch up my hair first!
Thank you. This is it. Now help me remember the name of the New Zealand movie about the girl who becomes the first whale rider.
Title The Secret of Roan Inish
Between the story of the working fisherman and the myth of the selkies is captured the mood and climate of the West of Ireland. From the book The Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry this film weaves two stories together, one of life today and one of life before, when the West was still fairly populated. Some believe the myth of the selkie, the seal that becomes human, sprung from the children with big dark eyes like seals that resulted from mixing with the stranded Spaniards of the Armada. Some Irish families claim to be descendants from selkies.
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