Chukotka: Coast of Memories
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1989.7.2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Slapins, Andris, 1949-1991
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content: Andris Slapins films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (49 minutes, color sound; 2088 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film depicts the native peoples of the Chukotka Peninsula, the Chukchi and Siberian Eskimo, whose traditional economies are based on whaling, hunting of other sea mammals, and reindeer herding. Coastal and tundra dwelling people are linked by trading relationships and a common culture. Coastal Chukchi are shown engaged in subsistence practices indistinguishable from their ancestors while the reindeer herders are shown living in the iaranga, a traditional complex tent built of poles and skins. The film presents the continuity and persistence of traditional practices including examples of the Sirenikski language (now almost extinct) spoken by elderly Eskimo.