File:Wolf dancers at the first Raindeer Fair 1915, Kauwerak, Alaska.jpg

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English: Wolf dancers at the first Raindeer Fair held at Mary’s Igloo in 1915. Masked ‘wolves’ in front wear mittens decorated with puffin beaks. In centre is the unused box drum used only in these ceremonies; serrations topping drum are said to represent peaks of the Kigluaik Mountains where lved the eagle who taught the Wolf and Eagle dances to the Eskimos.
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Source In: The Beaver, Autumn 1954, Hudson’s Bay Company, Winnipeg Canada, page 11. Dorothy Jean Ray: “Kauwerak the Lost Village of Alaska”.
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