artist

Tlingit/Southern Tutchone Artist

Norman Adamson...

sitting in quiet contemplation

carving

killer

whale

cedar

box

photo: j.w. hays

photo: j.w. hays

killer whale pendant

carved from

fossilized

ivory

&

inlaid with abalone

photo: j.w. hays

photo: j.w. hays

...cedar box and pendant created by  Norman Adamson

chinook for breakfast

...one male, one female

preparing the morning's catch

eggs for breakfast

hornets must be provided a share

hornets will take the offerings

to the bone in a day

everyone works at the camp

...including visitors

everyone takes a share of the catch

...including visitors

Naw- she

Chinook salmon on the fish rack:

some are left whole to bake - to barbecue - for steaks or fillets; others are cut for drying;

bellies are set aside for chowders or a base for broth;

alder smoke adds flavour.

In Southern Tutchone a fish rack is

lu dakat;

dried fish is lu gun;

smoke is lats'i.

Naw-she is one of the Southern Tutchone names for the family fish camp.

Naw-she describes the campsite location at the confluence of the Yukon and Takhini Rivers.

A boom set.

Leonard DeWeert

demonstrates another fishing method...

Scamp ...

...designated salmon watcher.

Scamp is tli-ah dusella shu-tii-jai

~

a cute small dog.

harvesting Chinook

Colin Adamson takes two male chinook from the

Yukon River at the family campsite.

photo credit: p.d. adamson

In Southern Tutchone the chinook is called

Gyu;

a campsite is called

ku k'anji;

the Yukon River is called

Chu Qwan.

Gyu laki.

(two chinook)

birds eye view

Sentinel

This very young bald eagle was keeping watch over

Marsh Lake in the Yukon

- July 25, 2010 -

The birth down is still evident on the eagle's breast.

summer swimming

...a small beaver enjoying the summer in a slough

off

Marsh Lake.

Beaver is sa in Southern Tutchone;

a small beaver is sa ra;

summer is shakat;

slough is shetin'a.

Yukon sky sculptures...

"rows and floes of angel hair

and ice cream castles in the air

and feather canyons ev'rywhere

i've looked at clouds that way"

"i've looked at clouds from both sides now

from up and down, and still somehow

it's cloud illusions i recall

i really don't know clouds at all"

excerpts from "Both Sides Now"

composed by Joni Mitchell

...in Southern Tutchone cloud is

"k'uk"

...rain clouds are "sha k'uk" or "sha achal".