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dataSSS[1] = new data("images/collaboration/sss01_l.jpg","<font><strong>Susie Silook</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;November 1997<br><br>&quot;I'm Susie Silook. I'm from St. Lawrence Island and I'm Siberian Yup'ik and Inupiaq. I come from a village of 650 people. It's still a subsistence based economy. We're still hunters and gatherers and that's refected in the material in my work. I use predominately walrus ivory which is what we live off of and whale bone.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[2] = new data("images/collaboration/sss02_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I've been doing this art seriously for 14 years. It's how I support myself and my two children. Most of my pieces are female. This one is called Waiting. She's carrying a food tray. Generally I use the whole walrus tusk. I don't like to cut it.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[3] = new data("images/collaboration/sss03_l.jpg","<font>Detail of Waiting</font>")
dataSSS[4] = new data("images/collaboration/sss04_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I wanted to explore the ancestral bones that I found on St. Lawrence Island. It's one of the richest Inuit archaeology sites. Incredible dolls found there are the center of much activity. These are derivative of them and are made of old ivory. Old ivory is from the ground and has different hues.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[5] = new data("images/collaboration/sss05_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is called Life. It's a small piece. It's derivative of the dolls. You find a lot of skeletal motifs in the artists' fiqures in my culture, so this is a direct carry over from that.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[6] = new data("images/collaboration/sss06_l.jpg","<font>&quot;In Eskimo art you see a lot of faces and different body parts. This represents the inua or soul.</font>")
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dataSSS[8] = new data("images/collaboration/sss08_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I like to work with the mythology. One of the major forces was the spirit of the moon. He would drop the animal souls back to earth from his platter. While the animal souls are on earth, the main force in charge of those souls and the regeneration of the souls back into visible bodies of the animals is Sedna.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[9] = new data("images/collaboration/sss09_l.jpg","<font>&quot;Sedna is a northern goddess and she is in charge of the reincarnation of animal souls. One of the stories told about her is if the people didn't respect her or the animals or broke too many hunting taboos, the animal souls would get tangled in her hair. When this happened the shaman must go down into the ocean and comb her hair seeking her foregiveness and that's the name of this piece, Seeking Her Foregiveness.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[10] = new data("images/collaboration/sss10_l.jpg","<font>&quot;The black there is baleen inlay. Baleen is from the mouth of the whale. We have the Bull Head Whale and it's strictly monitored under the International Whaling Commission. It's under a quota system, but it's been our traditional diet forever and continues today.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[11] = new data("images/collaboration/sss11_l.jpg","<font>&quot;The shaman, when he's going down to comb Sedna's hair, would be in transformational form. This is the Shaman and the Comb. The red on the ivory is red ochre.&quot;</font>")
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dataSSS[13] = new data("images/collaboration/sss13_l.jpg","<font>&quot;In the Central Yup'ik region one of the main mythological characters is Raven. In one of their stories, Raven creates first man and first woman. This piece has whale bone at the bottom with caribou antler. First Man and First Woman are of walrus tusk and the drum is made of bent wood and walrus stomach. It's called Creation.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[14] = new data("images/collaboration/sss14_l.jpg","<font>&quot;These drums are still used today. The raven is a baleen cut-out inserted in the back of the drum.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[15] = new data("images/collaboration/sss15_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is called Flying Shaman.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[16] = new data("images/collaboration/sss16_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is Winged Spirit. It's made of whale bone and is a hanging piece. Seal whiskers are used for the hair and she is suspended by sea weed. Her eyes are baleen.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[17] = new data("images/collaboration/sss17_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is called Our Lady of the Seals. Her halo is baleen and she's on cherry wood.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[18] = new data("images/collaboration/sss18_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This is all one piece and it is related to a ceremony that was conducted in connection with the whaling cycles.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[19] = new data("images/collaboration/sss19_l.jpg","<font>&quot;This piece is made of mastodon. It's called The Protected Circle and it's reminiscent of the circle the musk oxen would form to protect their young.&quot;</font>")
dataSSS[20] = new data("images/collaboration/sss20_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I had a lot of fun with this. It's called Intuition. When I'm working I really don't have a concrete image in mind so, I just start working my way through a piece. When I'm finished that's what it symbolizes to me- intuition.<br><br>My father had a dream once that he went down to the bottom of the ocean and heard drumming. He looked into this sort of snow cave and there were walrus drumming and singing songs. There was also a man, but instead of a head the man had a drum. So, this is a headless man and a drum and this came from my father's dream.</font>")
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