Ipiutak
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Ipiutak
First recorded in 1948; after the type site, on the Point Hope peninsula, New Alaska
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The oldest object here, from the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, is a tiny Ipiutak polar bear effigy in carved ivory, dated around A.D. 100-600.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
There he found more than 50 characteristic Ipiutak sites: shallow depressions where the earth-covered wooden dugouts had collapsed into the ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the remarkable objects found in Ipiutak ruins are chains and swivels cut laboriously out of walrus ivory.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Ipiutak people, Larsen thinks, were a notable exception.
From Time Magazine Archive
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