![]() or made such fine distinctions like "thing, given to someone who has none", "thing, given, not begged for", "thing, given to someone as to anybody else", "thing, given for exchange" etc. (The many kinds of presents and the words designating them were related to the culture: fests, marriage etc. This payment had a special name, /aˈkiliːɕaq/ - in their language, there were many words for the different kinds of presents and payments and this was one of them. Ungazighmiit people (the largest of Siberian Yupik variants) had /aˈliɣnalʁi/s, who received presents for the shamanizing, healing. Compared to the variants found among Eskimo groups of America, shamanism among Siberian Yupiks stressed more the importance of maintaining good relationship with sea animals. As Eskimo cultures were far from homogeneous (although had some similarities), thus also shamanism among Eskimo peoples had many variants. Many Indigenous Siberian cultures had persons working as mediator (between human and beings of the belief system, among others) - usually termed as " shamans" in the literature. Other types of buildings among Chaplino Eskimos /aːwχtaq/ include a modernized type, and /pəˈɬʲuk/ that was used for summer. This room for economical purposes was called /naˈtək/. In winter storms, and at night also the dogs were there. But the household works were done in the room of the yaranga in front of this inner building, and also many household utensils were kept there. It was separated from the outer, cooler parts of the yaranga with haired reindeer skins and grass, supported by a cage-like framework. There was a smaller cabin inside it at its back part, the /aːɣra/, used for sleeping and living. In the language of Chaplino Eskimos, its name was /məŋtˈtəʁaq/. It is called yaranga in the literature, the same word referring also to the similar building of the Chukchi. The winter building of Chaplino Eskimos (Ungazighmiit) was a round, dome-shaped building. These even include some "moving sculptures" with complicated pulleys animating scenes such as walrus hunting or traditional dances. Lawrence Island live in the villages of Savoonga and Gambell, and are widely known for their skillful carvings of walrus ivory and whale bone, as well as the baleen of bowhead whales. Material culture Asian/Siberian Yupik settlements (in Russia and the USA) Traditional crafts Sirenik Eskimos also live in that area, but their extinct language, Sireniki Eskimo, shows many peculiarities among Eskimo languages and is mutually unintelligible with the neighboring Siberian Yupik languages. Their self-designation is Yupighyt (йупигыт) meaning "true people". The name Yuit (юит, plural: юиты) was officially assigned to them in 1931, at the brief time of the campaign of support of Indigenous cultures in the Soviet Union. ![]() They are also known as Siberian or Eskimo ( Russian: эскимосы). They speak Central Siberian Yupik (also known as Yuit), a Yupik language of the Eskimo–Aleut family of languages. Siberian Yupiks, or Yuits ( Russian: Юиты), are a Yupik people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the far northeast of the Russian Federation and on St. Frame of traditional Yupik skin boat above the west beach of Gambell, Alaska. For the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. ![]() This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). ![]()
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