Talking Stick
Mike Bell
mikebell at internorth.com
Thu Mar 16 19:33:52 PST 2000
Friends
In December I was animating an Open space in Iqaluit on Baffin Island in the High Arctic--mostly with Inuit folks. Needed a talking stick but they are not a tradition among the Inuit. They don't have any sticks because they don't have any wood, because they don't have any trees--living up there hundreds of miles above the tree line. I looked for something to use. There was a mother attending with her infant lying on a blanket on the floor. She offered us the use of a pink plastic baby rattle--on the condition that we didn't put it in our mouths. We didn't. We just passed it around and everyone rattled it before speaking. Looked sort of shamanistic but worked like a damn.
Mike
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