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| Annual | Yearly; by year; every year. |
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| Athabascan | Native people of interior Alaska. There are eleven separate Athabascan groups in Alaska, with different cultural traditions. They live in a large area covering south-central Alaska north to the Brooks range, and from the Seward Peninsula all the way east to Hudson's Bay in Canada. Their name comes from Lake Athabaska in Canada. |
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| circa | About, around, near this time. Often abbreviated ca. |
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| curator | A person in charge of an exhibit or collection in a museum. |
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| diptheria | A contagious, life-threatening disease. |
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| elevation | The distance above or below the level of the ocean (sea level). |
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| environment | Every surrounding condition, including weather, geography, plants, animals. |
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| ice fog | Frozen ice crystals that form thick clouds close to the ground in extremely cold temperatures. |
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| interpretation | An effort to explain one or more meanings of a work of art, culture, language, or natural history. |
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| Inupiat | The indigenous people of northern and northwest Alaska. |
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| lead dog(s) | The first dog or pair of dogs in a dog team. |
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| lithography | The process of making a print from a flat stone or metal plate. Grease is applied to parts of the plate, which absorbs ink. The parts not greased do not absorb ink. |
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| mean | A mathematical term; to find the mean is to order the numbers used from least to greatest, then take the middlemost number. It is not the average. |
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| musher | A person who runs a team of dogs that pull a sled. The word comes from the French word "marcher" which means to move on. |
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| neckline | Line attached from dog's collar to tow line or gangline. |
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| point dog(s) | The dogs that are right behind the lead dogs in a dog team. |
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| precipitation | A measure of how much water falls in a certain area of land, usually by rain or snow. |
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| romantic | A style of painting that artists use to show imagination, adventure, and excitement. |
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| runners | Long, ski-like pieces of wood, metal, or plastic on which a sleigh or sled can slide. |
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| slough | A small, slow channel of a river. |
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| subsistence | The four survival needs common to all people: food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. |
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| swing dog(s) | The dogs in a team that work between the point dogs and the wheel dogs. |
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| tow line | The line on a dog team that connects the sled to the lead dogs; also called a gangline. |
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| trapline | The route a trapper uses to lay out series of traps. |
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| trapper | A person who traps fur-bearing animals for their skins. |
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| tug line | The lines on a dog team that the dogs pull on to move the sled forward. |
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| veterinarian | A person who practices medicine to prevent and treat diseases in animals. |
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| wheel dog(s) | The strong dogs on a team that pull right in front of the sled. |
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