Yupiget

E1034886

Yupiget are an Indigenous Siberian Yupik people of the Bering Strait region, known for their maritime hunting culture, language, and traditions spanning coastal Siberia and nearby Arctic islands.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Yupiget canonical 4
Yup’it 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Siberian Yupik people
artForm carved ivory figurines
engraved walrus tusks
ritual masks
climate polar climate
subarctic maritime climate
continent Asia
culturalRegion Arctic
linked to: Arctic region

Subarctic
endonym Yupiget
ethnicGroupOf Bering Strait region
linked to: Bering region
exonym Siberian Yupik
hasKinshipSystem bilateral kinship
hasSocialOrganization extended families
seasonal hunting camps
hasSubsistencePattern sea ice hunting
sealing
walrus hunting
whaling
language Siberian Yupik language
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut languages
locatedIn Arctic islands
Bering Sea coast
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Russian Far East
linked to: Russia Far East

coastal Siberia
partOf Siberian Yupik
linked to: Naukan Yupik
practices drum dancing
mask dancing
throat singing
relatedEthnicGroup Central Alaskan Yupʼik
Yupik
religion animism
shamanism
traditionalClothing fur parkas
gut raincoats
skin boots
traditionalDwelling semi-subterranean houses
sod houses
traditionalEconomy fishing
gathering
maritime hunting
sea mammal hunting
uses ivory carving
kayak-type hunting boats
skin boats
umiak-type open boats

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yup’ik people nativeName Yup’it
linked to: Yupiget
Yupiget endonym Yupiget