Hooper Bay Artifacts and our Flight Back Home

These are on display near the gym in Hooper Bay.

Ivory art.

Traditional Dance fan (grass and caribou fur).

Yupik Mask.

Hooper Bay Spears (Alakanuk spears are much thinner.)

 I love how this guy is smiling. It captures the feeling of a Yupik dance.

Kids colored salmon strips to imitate fish strips.

Kids' artwork in the hallways is always so cute!

Locals were advertising handmade earrings and grass art.

Flying over the Scammon Bay hills.

The tide was low on the coast between Scammon Bay and Alakanuk.

Sammy is a very shy person.

Hooper Bay Teacher Inservice

 It's hard to believe this is already my third time traveling to the fall Hooper Bay teacher inservice. This year, instead of downriver sites going to Hooper Bay and upriver sites going to Mountain Village, they split it by grade levels.

Scammon Bay hills from over 6000 ft high.

Sammy got to play co-pilot.

Hooper Bay School sits right on the bay.

Our pilot banked the corner hard over the ocean to land in Hooper.

Hooper Bay

I have to try hard for an overhand serve.

We had a great time being ridiculous while playing volleyball.

I got quite the workout between laughing, dancing, and playing.

Sarah has a pretty serious serve.

The snow started turning the terrain white.

Joshua Cunningham took most of these pictures.

The snow flurries distracted many a presenter (most were from the lower 48).