The Lure of Foraging
ne of Jacqueline Cleveland’s photographs taken in the Alaskan Yup’ik coastal village of Toksook Bay shows a village elder in her home. Seated in an easy chair beneath a patchwork of family photographs, in a small space that seems to be both living room and kitchen, Lizzie Chimiugak Nenguryarr appears caught midsentence, her hands folded in her lap as she speaks. Her lavender calico qaspeq is trimmed in rose-colored rickrack; the purple and pink shades of her tunic recur in a nearby clipboard depicting Disney princesses, and in the bulk cases of Cup Noodles shrimp-flavored ramen stacked near her
