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RC.3007-22:

Valery Kavaugye, a Yupik hunter from Sireniki, sewing a bag from fresh walrus skin (Tuktyk). He will fill it with fresh walrus meat & bury it under stones & leave it to ferment for several months. This fermented walrus meat is a local Yupik Eskimo delicacy known as 'Iqway'. Sireniki, Providensky Region, Chukotka, Russian Far East.

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