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Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter (1989)

March 16, 1989 Documentary 1h 30m

Overview

This film gives an intimate look at a way of life of which most of us have seen only glimpses. Dance was once at the heart of Yupik Eskimo spiritual and social life. It was the bridge between the ancient and the new, the living and the dead and a person's own power and the greater powers of the unseen world.

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