Okvik

adjective

Ok·​vik

ˈäkvik

: of or belonging to an early phase of the Old Bering Sea culture in northern Alaska and northeastern Siberia that produced an art style in which patterns suggesting scrolls are noticeable

Word History

Etymology

from Okvik, site on Punuk Island, S.E. of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering sea

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