The Bladder Festival or Bladder Feast , is an important annual seal hunting harvest renewal ceremony and celebration held each year to honor and appease the souls of seals taken in the hunt during the past season which occurred at the winter solstice by the Yup'ik of western and southwestern Alaska.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

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The Bladder Festival or Bladder Feast (Nakaciuq "something done with bladders" or Nakaciuryaraq "the process of doing something with bladders" in Yup'ik), is an important annual seal hunting harvest renewal ceremony and celebration held each year to honor and appease the souls of seals taken in the hunt during the past season which occurred at the winter solstice by …

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The Bladder Festival or Bladder Feast (Nakaciuq "something done with bladders" or Nakaciuryaraq "the process of doing something with bladders" in Yup'ik), is an important annual seal hunting harvest renewal ceremony and celebration held each year to honor and appease the souls of seals taken in the hunt during the past season which occurred at the winter solstice by …

The bladder fiddle was a folk instrument used throughout Europe and in the Americas. The instrument was originally a simple large stringed fiddle (a musical bow) made with a long stick, one or more thick gut strings, and a pig's-bladder resonator. It was bowed with either a notched stick or a horsehair bow.. Changes in the instrument have produced two distinct variations.

The Messenger Feast or Kivgiq, Kevgiq ( Kivgiġñiq in Iñupiaq dialect of North Slope Borough, Kivgiqsuat in King Island Iñupiaq, Kevgiq in Yup'ik ), is a celebratory mid-winter festival in Alaska traditionally held by Iñupiaq ( Tikiġaġmiut, Nunamiut ...) and Yup'ik peoples after a strong whale harvest. The event died out early in the ...

The urinary bladder, or simply bladder, is a hollow organ in humans and other vertebrates that stores urine from the kidneys before disposal by urination.In humans the bladder is a distensible organ that sits on the pelvic floor.Urine enters the bladder via the ureters and exits via the urethra.The typical human bladder will hold between 300 and 500 ml (10.14 and 16.91 fl oz) …