This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man holding a skin kayak and a paddle on the beach at Kotzebue, Alaska, in 1962. He is wearing a parka with a fur-trimmed hood and mukluks. The photographer is unidentified.
This color slide depicts an Alaska Native man in a kayak in the ocean near either Kotzebue or Barrow, Alaska in 1962. He is wearing a coat with a fur-trimmed hood, holding a paddle, and waving at the photographer. The photographer is unidentified.
This color slide depicts an unidentified Alaska Native man in a skin kayak in the ocean near Kotzebue, Alaska in 1962. He wears a parka with a fur-trimmed hood and a paddle. The photographer is unidentified.
From verso: "The Aleuts used a light skin boat that greatly resembled the Eskimo kayak but was usually built to carry either two or three people instead of just one."
Deering on a spit of land surrounded by water [mouth of Inmachuk River at Kotzebue Sound]; dark, low clouds in sky; a kayak on water in foreground; Fairhaven Mining Company buildings on right
Title from image caption Six kayaks head for village on Sanak Island; houses and church are visible in shadow along shore; the Alaska Commercial Company maintained a fur trading station in Sanak
Top image shows Aleut man in single baidarka with spear and paddle; bottom shows three Aleuts in one baidarka From: Sarychev, Gavriil Andreevich, "Atlas of the Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean," compiled by the Imperial Navy Department, 1826