North Pacific High Sea

The waters around Nunivak Island lie between the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and the open Bering Sea. The island's Cup'ig people moved between winter villages and seasonal camps, hunting seals and walrus in spring and fishing for salmon in the rivers later in the year. Kayaks allowed hunters to move among broken sea ice when conditions permitted. These journeys followed the changing presence of animals and the seasons of an exposed northern coast.