<html><div>At 08:33 PM 3/16/00 -0700, you wrote:</div>
<div>>Friends</div>
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<div>>In December I was animating an Open space in Iqaluit on Baffin
Island in the </div>
<div>>High Arctic--mostly with Inuit folks. Needed a talking stick but
they are </div>
<div>>not a tradition among the Inuit. They don't have any
sticks because they </div>
<div>>don't have any wood, because they don't have any trees--living
up there </div>
<div>>hundreds of miles above the tree line. I looked for
something to use. </div>
<div>>There was a mother attending with her infant lying on a blanket
on the </div>
<div>>floor. She offered us the use of a pink plastic baby
rattle--on the </div>
<div>>condition that we didn't put it in our mouths. We didn't.
We just passed it </div>
<div>>around and everyone rattled it before speaking. Looked
sort of shamanistic </div>
<div>>but worked like a damn.</div>
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<div>>Mike</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Harrison</div>
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