These are the sod Yup'ik Eskimo
barabara (pronounced bu-rah-bu-rah)
homes from the time of Saint Olga.
Photo from the upper Yup'ik region of Alaska.
The newer replicas
have not grown moss or grasses on their roofs yet.
Below is a small one person barabara once used by
Orthodox monks on Spruce Island, 1997.
Photo from Spruce Island, (off Kodiak Island),
Alaska where St. Herman lived.
Oil lamp consisting of a stone bowl with oil in it.
Photo from Kodiak Island, Alaska.
