Photos: Traditional foods at Alaska Native convention

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Shelly Bogenrife holds pickled herring eggs from Hydaburg that were among the traditional foods she offered for sale, including kippered sockeye and chinook salmon and black seaweed during the Elders and Youth Conference on Oct. 13, 2015, which preceded the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage.

At the Dena'ina Center during the Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention, it's hard to miss the fishy, smoky smell wafting through the lower levels of the convention hall.

That's thanks to the dozen or so people lined up outside, selling all kinds of smoked, pickled and canned salmon and other fish. With AFN visitors flocking to the vendors, buying up vacuum-sealed packages of dried fish and other items, it's a popular and highly visible component of the convention.

But those vendors represent just a small part of the traditional food scene that goes on at the state's largest gathering of Alaska Natives.

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