FermenteaWhere food goes to change
626 sourced equipment pages: vessels, tools, appliances and built structures.
An Alutiiq initaq is a wooden hanging rack for air-drying fish around Kodiak. An 1889 Old Harbor photograph shows an open rail structure; the Alutiiq Museum documents contemporary spruce-pole or lumber racks and airflow-preserving covers.
CDC guidance depicts fish heads in a grass-lined hole in the ground and describes it as a traditional Alaska Native food-preparation method; it names no specific Nation or community.
A Dene cache pit at Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska, initially dated to around 1,000 years ago. JBER documents a below-ground feature lined with birch bark and grasses; exact contents and construction details remain under study.
Show on mapA large clay-lined depression built beneath some Alutiiq house floors in the Kodiak region, documented in Koniag contexts for food storage and possibly fermentation.
An Alutiiq household container made from a seal stomach held summer foods such as berries, greens, oil and fish eggs. Its flexible, lashed ends contained stored foods and could also hold blubber while it released oil.