Talking Stick

[Harrison Owen]

At 08:33 PM 3/16/00 -0700, you wrote:
>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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The next question Mike -- is will the Inuit adopt the Talking Stick? If so this
may be acase of carrying coal to New Castle when new Castle didn't have any
coal. Or Something.

Harrison



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