Students in Teller have been working on building an umiaq - a large open skin boat- with Maligiaq Padilla. Ryan Topkok (in the bow) and Cameron Okbaok (in the stern) are BSSD graduates who are continuing their boat building apprenticeships under Maligiaq.
-January 2017
The Unaaq -Featuring Qayaq-builder, Maligiaq Padilla, and the students of Unalakleet School, made by Nick Hansen.
Time-lapse of Maligiaq building a contemporary Norton-Sound style qayaq in Koyuk, Alaska.
Mercedes Otten tells her story of the hunters and the bear, painted on a drum made by Maligiaq and St. Michael students.