Yup Ik Culture Analysis

“Our Yup 'ik ancestors apparently were complete with everything needed to keep the culture alive. They had experts who could measure and understand happenings in their daily lives.” There can be so many rules and things to do in Yup’ik culture. They would pass it down generation to generation. Back then, during winter time they would live in igloos. During summer time, they would live in mud house. There would be only couple houses and there was no electricity. They would make a fire out of seal oil in the middle of the house and that would be the only light. They would keep adding seal oil to make the fire going. Men would live in the mud house and women would live in another mud house. Men and women would not able to live together because …show more content…
It is also very important to make something out of a wood. Young adults learn how to make things that are very useful. The elders would teach them how to make things. The young women would make hats, coats, boots, and gloves for people to use. Even though they made mistakes, the elders would tell them that they learn from their mistakes. They would use fish bones as needles and animal muscle as thread. The elders wanted to young women to learn how to make a clothing, because when they get a spouse they can make them if the husband needs it. The young women would also learn how to work on what the men catched. The elders would teach them how to work on them. They would work on seal, bird, fish, and all kinds of animal what a man would catch. If a man would catch something, the young woman would have to work on it. If they learned how to do things by their own, the elders would look for a man to be with the young women. No matter how young the woman is, she should be with the man the elder chose. The elders look for a man to be with the woman when they learned how to do the chores, cook, and make something with the fur. Even though the woman really don’t want to be with a man, they had no choice but to be with