Ipiutak

[ ip-ee-yoo-tak ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of an Indigenous culture of Alaska lasting from a.d. 100 to 600.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ipiutak¹

First recorded in 1948; after the type site, on the Point Hope peninsula, New Alaska

Example Sentences

The oldest object here, from the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, is a tiny Ipiutak polar bear effigy in carved ivory, dated around A.D. 100-600.

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There he found more than 50 characteristic Ipiutak sites: shallow depressions where the earth-covered wooden dugouts had collapsed into the ground.

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But the Ipiutak people, Larsen thinks, were a notable exception.

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Among the remarkable objects found in Ipiutak ruins are chains and swivels cut laboriously out of walrus ivory.

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It lies at Ipiutak on Point Hope, a bleak sandspit in the Arctic Ocean, where no trees and little grass survive endless gales at 30� below zero.

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