Holiday bazaar returns to Alaska Native Heritage Center - Anchorage Daily News

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By Bill Roth

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Tiffany Israel, originally of Hooper Bay, performed with the Cupiit Yurartet Drummers and Dancers on the second day of the Alaska Native Heritage Center Holiday Bazaar on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. The event returned after having been canceled last season during the pandemic. (Bill Roth / ADN)

After a successful summer season, the Alaska Native Heritage Center decided to hold its annual holiday bazaar that was canceled last season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “By having this event, we are supporting our local Indigenous artists,” said Paul Asicksik, a cultural program manager at the center.

“For the first time we are open in the winter,” said Asicksik. “People can just look around. We show films in the theatre that are cultural. They can walk around the village sites. There is no dancing, no storytelling, or Native games like in the summer.” Admission is free for the winter season Monday – Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Ann Lawrence walks with her great granddaughter Lynnae Howarth, 6, while attending the second day of the Alaska Native Heritage Center Holiday Bazaar on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)

Ann Lawrence walked towards an Athabascan site with her great granddaughter Lynnae Howarth, 6, while attending the second day of the Alaska Native Heritage Center Holiday Bazaar on Sunday.

“We’re here today to celebrate our cultural heritage (Inupiaq, Yup’ik, and Cup’ik) so Lynnae can be exposed, so she can see that all cultures our important within our People, even throughout the word.” said Lawerence. “A celebration of our People, of our resilience.”

“I also love to support the Native arts and crafts artists because this is showing themselves and their ancestors work--to continue to perpetuate it,” said Lawrence. “For our People to see they can make a living through artwork. My dad did that. He was an ivory carver from Little Diomede Island and he did that all his life.”

Inupiaq carver Victor Geffe, originally from Kotzebue, sits with masks carved out of whale vertebrae that he had for sale during the two-day holiday bazaar at the Alaska Native Heritage Center on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)

Artist Percy Avugiak who paints “colorful abstract Native art paintings” sold out of greeting cards based on his acrylic painting of “the lighting of the Christmas tree.” Painted during the pandemic, “the animals are practicing social distancing.” Avugiak pointed out details in the painting like a raven that stole the snowman’s carrot nose and a “photo bombing fox.”

Artist Percy Avugiak sold his "colorful abstract Native art paintings" during the holiday bazaar at the Alaska Native Heritage Center on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)

Carver Leon Kinneeveauk stands near ivory carvings created by 20 carvers with the Alaska Art Alliance who had their work on display for sale during the Alaska Native Heritage Center Holiday Bazaar on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)

Tiffany Israel, center, performed with Cupiit Yurartet Drummers and Dancers on the second day of the Alaska Native Heritage Center Holiday Bazaar on Sunday. The event returned after having been canceled last season during the pandemic. (Bill Roth / ADN)

Laura Kolerok who is Cup'ik and originally from Mekoryuk on Nunivat Island, sold hand-made kuspuks during the two-day holiday bazaar that returned to the Alaska Native Heritage Center after being canceled last season during the pandemic. Photographed on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)

Lynette Pequeno shopped for beaded jewelry with Aven Smith, 4, and Mia Pequeno, 7, during the two-day holiday bazaar that returned to the Alaska Native Heritage Center after having been canceled last season during the pandemic. Photographed on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)

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