Sisters
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Description:
Left to right: Axinia Peters (Irene's sister) and Irene Newman.
Irene and Axinia were born and raised in the village of Paimiut, downriver from Holy Cross. It is now abandoned. They went to school there until the fifth grade, the highest level offered at the time. The rest they learned from their parents and living a traditional subsistence lifestyle.
Photo Courtesy of:
Maurice Newman