Full note reads: "1949 03 Nancy (Cone) Crabaugh - Unknown woman on the bank of the Kobuk River in front of village of Shungnak, AK. This was taken at the south end of the village."
Full note reads: "1949 04 Nora Black in front of her sod house @ Shungnak, AK. This house was at the south end of the village and the only one of its kind. I think she was the oldest female in the village."
(5:27 min) (09 of 27) Flying for fur buyers
Leo Kay member of the Koslosky family. Fairbanks, Ruby, Hughes, Kobuk, Shungnak, Kiana, Kotzebue then Nome. Maime Wig's Roadhouse ran into Jim McGoffin, & (Muskrat) Johnnie Schwagler. Took off...
Full note reads: "Log cabin church in Shungnak. Some people present were George Cleveland, Florence Collins, Charlie Sheldon, Evans Commack, Pauline Harvey, Johnny Cleveland, Amelia Grey."
Full note reads: "Log cabin church in Shungnak. They are singing from a hymn book in church. L-R: Charlie Douglas, George Cleveland, Gene Lee Sr., Robert Cleveland (?), Arthur Douglas.
Title from verso. "[This Wien bush plane takes off from a sand bar on the Kobuk river with a load of Eskimo students headed for high schools and colleges. The village of Shungnak is too small to support a high school. Shungnak, Alaska]. Wien Air...
Title from verso. "[The little Eskimo girl in the left foreground watches the big girls board a Polatis porter bush plane at Kobuk.] Wien Air Alaska photo by Frank Whaley Fairbanks, Alaska."
Title from sleeve. View of the buildings of Shungnak, seen from the Kobuk River. Houses from left to right identified as Ola Gray, Albert and Edna Commack, Irene and Johnny Douglas, Herman Tickett, Carl Tickett, Robert Cleveland and Evans Commack....